Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Statute of Frauds was applicable to the oral contract for lifetime employment that the plaintiff contends existed between himself and the defendants. Taking as true the plaintiff's assertion that termination of employment provisions were included in the oral contract, the alleged termination of employment provisions were insufficient as a matter of law to take the contract out of the Statute of Frauds (see
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