Davis v. True
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jennie B. Davis, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office -of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 18th day of December, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the -court, and also from an order bearing date the 16th day of December, 1902, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the plaintiff’s .motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
HlESOHBEBG, J. :
The plaintiff, as the assignee of the claim of C. Herbert Diamond, ¡sues to recover $1,660 as real estate broker’s commissions for renting to Mrs. Judith Whittier the building owned or controlled by the defendants, known as the Hotel Ramon, on West Fifty-seventh' ¡street in the borough of Manhattan. The evidence establishes the fact that Mrs. Whittier was introduced to the defendants as a prospective tenant by Diamond, and that the negotiations for the lease were successfully carried on and concluded through his agency. The agreed annual rental was the sum of $16,000, and the…
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