Schatten v. Briedis

In related actions for specific performance of a contract to sell real property (action No. 1), and to recover a broker’s commission (action No. 2), the defendant in both actions appeals from (1) *380an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Peter Patsalos, J.), dated July 13, 1988, which, after a nonjury trial, granted specific performance to the plaintiff in action No. 1 and directed him to pay the plaintiff broker in action No. 2, the sum of $11,940, (2) a judgment of the same court, entered August 9, 1988, which is in favor of the plaintiff in action No. 2 and against him in the principal…