Louis Schlesinger, Inc. v. Burstein Realty Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hetfield, J.

This is an appeal to review a judgment in favor of the plaintiff-respondent entered in the Supreme Court, Essex Circuit, as a result of a jury’s verdict. Suit was instituted to recover brokerage commissions for the procurement of a lessee for a building owned by the defendant-appellant, situated at No. 682 South Fifteenth street, in the city of Newark.

The first count of the complaint, which the plaintiff relied upon at the trial, alleges in substance that the defendant entered into an agreement with the plaintiff, whereby the plaintiff was…