Withers v. Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange, Ltd.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange, Limited, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 26th day of May, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $900, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of June, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made Upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff went to the defendant’s building in Brooklyn for the purpose of renting an office, arriving there between half-past four and five o’clock in the afternoon. He inquired of the elevatorman for the superintendent or janitor and was directed by him to go to i room 404 on the fourth floor. This he did, and, upon arriving there, he found the door locked but bearing a sign in these words: Inquire of Chauncey & Co. or of the engineer in the building.” The plaintiff thereupon retraced his steps to the elevator and inquired of the elevatorman where to. find the…
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