Plaintiff estate alleges an oral agreement with defendants pursuant to which it is entitled to continue in the decedent's stead to collect commissions on royalties received by defendant Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria. It is, however, clear that because defendants' potential liability under the agreement as alleged would endure beyond the end of a lifetime, the agreement falls within the Statute of Frauds (see, General Obligations Law § 5-701 [a] [1]). Although plaintiff...
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