Donovan v. Middlebrook
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Richard J. Donovan, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of. New York on the 9th'day of 'January, 1904, upon the dismissal of the complaint by. direction of the court after a.trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
This appeal is from a judgment dismissing the complaint at the close of plaintiff’s ease.' The action was brought to recover one-half of brokers’ commissions in the sale of real estáte under an alleged assignment. The complaint alleged, in .substance, that in March or April, Í903, the defendants' employed one Joseph Toch to secure a purchaser for certain real estate in the city of New York, and agreed if successful to pay him a commission of two per cent of the purchase money; that Toch, with the aid and influence of one Horowitz, procured a purchaser to whom the property was…
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