Haase v. Ullmann
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Samuel Ullmann, doing business under the name and style of Joseph Ullmann, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 23d day of March, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of April, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the ■ minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
Appeal from a judgment for plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and an order denying motion for a new trial in an. action for broker’s commissions.
The plaintiff sues for a commission upon the sale for defendant of a parcel of property in Chicago to the Chicago University. It is conceded that plaintiff did not actually effect a sale, and that he never brought the parties together in agreement upon a price. His claim is that he was the “procuring cause ” of the sale, which was actually consummated by. another broker.
Plaintiff had had charge of the property, in the way of renting and…
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