Keough v. Meyer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Ahrend F, Meyer and another, from a judgment of the County Court of the county of Westchester in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 7th day of June, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from two orders entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th and 17th days of August,. 1907, respectively, denying the defendants’ motions for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:'
The motion to direct a verdict for the defendants at the close should have been granted. The plaintiff sues for his commissions in getting a purchaser for the defendants’ land. It was a vacant corner in a village. The plaintiff was familiar with it, passing it and seeing it frequently. ■ -After viewing it with a proposed purchaser he visited the defendants and asked them to permit him to get a purchaser for it, to which they assented, giving $25,000 as the price. » He claims that they ttid him the frontage was 168 feet on Central avenue and 110 feet on the other street. He…
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