Kennon v. Poerschke
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Edward R. Poerschke and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 29th day of April, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of May, 1911, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action on an assigned claim of one White, a real estate broker, for commissions, on the sale of real estate owned by the defendant Fuchs. The employment of plaintiff’s assignor was by the appellant Poerschke. There is no evidence that he was authorized by the owner to employ the broker, or *840that the -.owner fcnew«2r .had hem informed ,at rany time prior to the -sate that the plaintiff’-s aasigmor'fcsd heen employed as a broker or had heen instrumental in effecting a sale. The owner cannot be held liable to a broker for commissions on mere proof of the fact that the…
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