Gittelson v. Gandolfo

WOOD (W. J.), J., pro tem.

Plaintiff filed this action to recover fees claimed to have been earned in the negotiation of the sale of defendant’s real estate. He alleges in his complaint “that the defendant employed the plaintiff herein as her agent to negotiate a sale or secure a purchaser for the premises . . . described as lot 8, block 52, etc.” Then follow the allegations customary in actions of this kind prior to the enactment of the Real Estate Broker’s Act of 1919. In the answer defendant denies these allegations and in addition thereto sets forth that she was induced to sign the…