Handy v. Van Cortlandt Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Van Oortlandt Realty Company, from an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of November, 1912, affirming a judgment of the City Court of the city of New York in favor of the plaintiff, and also an order of said City Court denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiff was a real estate broker, and the defendant owned approximately one-third of the lots in a tract of land in Yonkers known as Van Cortlandt terrace.
The complaint contains three counts for services and commissions based upon an employment of the plaintiff by the defendant with respect to these lots. The first cause of action was withdrawn, and the second, which was to recover $165 commissions for selling lot No. 122 to one Anderson in the month of May, 1911, was admitted. The third cause of action was to recover commissions for selling six other lots and part of a…
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