Snelling & Snelling Personnel Agency of Queens, Inc. v. Nasir

This is an action by plaintiff, an employment agency, to recover from defendant a fee for finding him employment with the third-party defendant, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (“Mony”). As might be expected, this lawsuit arises because defendant did not long remain an employee of Mony. This, ordinarily, should not have caused any great difficulty since the agreement entered into by plaintiff and defendant, in accordance with sections 185 and 186 of the General Business Law, covered this contingency. However, the arrangements actually made for the payment of plaintiff’s fee did…