Stedwell v. Hartmann
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Hermann Hartmann and another, executors, etc., of Hermann H. Schwietering, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 3d day of February, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of February, 1902, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon…
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Appeal by the defendants, Hermann Hartmann and another, executors, etc., of Hermann H. Schwietering, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 3d day of February, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of February, 1902, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
Several grounds are urged and earnestly insisted upon for the reversal of this judgment, but we think none of them are tenable except that which impeaches the validity of the agreement that-lies, at the foundation of this action. The plaintiff’s testator was an attorney and counselor at law, and in February, 1874, he entered into a written agreement with a number of merchants and' mercantile firms and corporations in the city of New York, including the-defendants’ testator, in and by the terms of which agreement the plaintiff’s testator was employed to take all needful…
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