Levy v. Ruff
City of New York Municipal Court
Appeal by defendant from a judgment for plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was brought by Simon Levy against Caroline Ruff to recover commissions, to which the plaintiff claimed to be entitled as a real estate broker in procuring a purchaser for defendant’s property. The further facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Ehrlich, Ch. J.
The action is to recover brokerage on the sale of a piece of real estate belonging to the defendant. The plaintiff proved that he was a broker, and employed as such by the defendent to effect a sale of her property. That he introduced to her as a purchaser one Fine, with whom she entered into a written contract *292to convey. The writing is informal in its character, yet intelligently contains the price and terms of sale.
That the plaintiff was the procuring cause is conceded, and the proofs sufficiently show that the failure to carry out the sale was owing to the acts of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hart v. HoffmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
3Cited by2 opinions
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- Jaffe v. NagelAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1909