Southack v. Ireland
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Adelia D. Ireland, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 15th day of December, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of January, 1905, _ denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. .
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action by" real estate brokers against the lessor, who 'Was also the owner of premises Ho. 218 Fifth avenue, to recover commissions at the usual rate of one per cent, as- alleged, for obtaining a tenant for three years at a rental of $16,000 per annum. The ' defendant put in issue the material allegations of the complaint and alleged that she employed her own brokers to effect the lease and they, without her knowledge or au thority, employed .the plaintiffs to assist them upon an agreement to divide the ■ commissions • equally between them. The plaintiffs called as- a…
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