Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1994

Potamkin v. Schwartz

Potamkin v. Schwartz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 25, 1994
208 A.D.2d 457; 618 N.Y.S.2d 217; 1994 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10488
Potamkin v. Schwartz

Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard B. Lowe, III, J., upon decision of Peter Tom, J.), entered on or about February 1, 1994, which granted plaintiff summary judgment on his cause of action, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The IAS Court correctly found that the stock repurchase agreement in issue is unambiguous, and that parol evidence is therefore inadmissible to show any unstated intentions concerning the financial condition of the company or plaintiff’s participation in its management and promotion of its business (W.W.W. Assocs. v Giancontieri, 77 NY2d 157, 162). We also note that defendant was a sophisticated, counseled businessman (see, Chimart Assocs. v Paul, 66 NY2d 570, 571), whose own attorney drew the clause requiring his repurchase of the shares he sold to plaintiff. Concur—Wallach, J. P., Asch, Rubin and Williams, JJ.

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