Jones v. Ramsey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Joseph Bamsey, Jr., 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 17th" day of December, 1907, upon the verdict of á jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of January, 1908, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This action is brought to recover of the defendants the sum of $370,000, alleged to have been paid out by the plaintiff, at their special instance and request, in the purchase, of lands for them in the State of Ohio, in the latter part of the year 1902 and the first half of 1903, and plaintiff seeks to recover $90,000 in addition thereto for moneys paid out by him at the special instance and request of the defendants in examining, prospecting and-drilling the lands so purchased for coal, and for commissions for his services, aggregating the sum of $460,000, for which he demands…
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- Jones v. GouldAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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