51 A.D.2d 527 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1976
Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered August 1, 1974, granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s complaint as time-barred, unanimously affirmed, with $60 costs and disbursements to respondent. On March 9, 1965, the plaintiff publisher entered into an agreement with the defendant author to publish an untitled novel of approximately 75,000 words. The agreement provided in paragraph "4” that the manuscript was due on March 15, 1966 and that if it was not delivered within three months of said date, "the Publishers may, at their option, terminate this agreement by notice in writing posted or delivered to the Author, and may recover from the Author all monies which they may have advanced to the Author upon the Work”. It is conceded that the manuscript was not delivered and that no portion of same was ever accepted by plaintiff. This action for breach of contract seeking return of an advance given to defendant by plaintiff and the recovery of damages was commenced on September 7, 1973, approximately seven and one-quarter years after the