Rossbach Associates, Inc. v. Realty Associates, Inc.

Plaintiff sues defendants for brokerage commissions claimed to be due because defendants orally employed plaintiff as a broker on September 13, 1951, and on the same day plaintiff claims it procured an oral agreement of the parties on all essential terms of the proposed sale and thereafter defendants improperly refused to continue. Defendants appeal from a judgment against them of $41,073.35 entered on a jury’s verdict after trial before the court and a jury.

The transaction involved a proposed sale of the Printing Crafts Building covering a whole blockfront on 8th Avenue from 33rd to 34th…