Gracie v. Stevens
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Edwin A. Stevens and others, from so-much of 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 23d day of December, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury as adjudged that the plaintiff recover judgment against the said defendants in the sum of $113,839.02, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of January, 1900, nunc pro tuno as of the 15th day of…
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Appeal by the defendants, Edwin A. Stevens and others, from so-much of 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 23d day of December, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury as adjudged that the plaintiff recover judgment against the said defendants in the sum of $113,839.02, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of January, 1900, nunc pro tuno as of the 15th day of December, 1899, denying the said defendants’1 motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The action is brought to recover commissions earned by the plaintiff by procuring a purchaser for what was known as the lower-ferries belonging to the defendants and other persons. The defendants had inherited from their ancestor the right to operate and were conducting two ferries, one known as the Fourteenth Street or upper ferry, which extended from Fourteenth street, in Hoboken,, to Fourteenth street, in New York, and the other known as the-lower ferry, extending from Newark street, in Hoboken, to Christopher and Barclay streets, in New Fork. It is claimed by the plaintiff that…
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