Doyle v. Meeker

McKee, J.:

This is an action of interpleader. The plaintiff brought suit to recover brokers’ commissions for services alleged to have been rendered the Forty-second Street and Madison Avenue Corporation in leasing its building at No. 17 East Forty-first street to Maude^E. Ames. The defendant Meeker filed a claim for the same commissions and upon motion the money was paid into court and Meeker substituted for the corporation as defendant. The testimony shows conclusively, I think, that Mrs. Ames employed the plaintiff to negotiate the lease and that he performed at least part of the work of…