Bright v. Canadian International Stock-Yard & Abattoir Co.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, New York county. Action by Aaron S. Bright against the Canadian International Stock-Yard & Abattoir Company, Limited, to recover money alleged to be due on a contract. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Reversed.
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Appeal from circuit court, New York county. Action by Aaron S. Bright against the Canadian International Stock-Yard & Abattoir Company, Limited, to recover money alleged to be due on a contract. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Reversed. The contract sued on, omitting the formal parts, is as follows: Whereas, the above-named corporation, through its president, is desirous of securing for the association a connection with a person thoroughly conversant in detail (commercially and otherwise) with…
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brunt, P. J.
This action was brought to recover a sum alleged to be due from the defendant to the plaintiff upon an alleged contract. It was strictly in its nature an action by a broker to recover commissions alleged to have been agreed upon. The contract sued upon was made by one Dodge, as the president of the defendant, with the plaintiff. It was conceded upon the trial, and the court so charged the jury, that the president of the company had no power to make this contract on behalf of the corporation, and that it was necessary, in order that the same might be binding upon the corporation, that it…
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