McEvoy v. Athens Hotel Co.

O’Malley, James, J.

The plaintiff has secured a verdict of $27,000 for broker’s commissions for negotiating a long term lease on property formerly known as the Athens Hotel on East Forty-second street, and for the sale of its good will and furnishings. The property was rented for $1,875,000 and the good will sold for $80,000.

The evidence was sufficient to sustain a finding that the plaintiff introduced the purchaser and lessee to the defendant’s president, and the plaintiff claims to have been the efficient procuring cause of effecting the sale and lease. The defendant, on the other hand,…