William P. Rae Co. v. Kane
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Peter F. Kane and' others, 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- 4th. day of December, 1906, upon the verdict of a'jury, and also from :an order entered in said. clerk’s office on the 2Sth-day' of Deeenibér, 1006, denying the defendants’ motion for a-new trial made upon the minutes. The action was to recover a "broker’s commission for the sale of a farm.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The controlling facts in the case are that the defendants put their farm of about 103 acres in the hands of a large number of brokers for sale, including the plaintiff; that the plaintiff’s representative saw them ; that they authorized'the plaintiff to sell the farm at §650 an acre; that the plaintiff went with a committee of- the board of education of the city of New York on April 25, 1904," and . showed them several farms in ; the'same vicinity, including the defendants’ farm; that on one of these farms the plaintiff had a purchase option; that the said committee selected that…
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