Perkins v. Brainard Quarry Co.
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from trial term. Action by Frank P. Perkins against the Brainard Quarry Company for broker’s commissions. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from two orders,—one denying a motion for a new trial on a case and exceptions, and the other denying a motion for a new trial on the minutes,—plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGiegerich, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiff, as assignee of one Luman W. Johnson, for commissions alleged to have been earned by the latter, as a real-estate broker, in procuring a purchaser to make an exchange of certain bonds for defendant’s real estate. The answer, among other things, set’s up that about the time mentioned in the complaint,—i. e. on or about the 1st day of April, 1892,—Johnson was introduced to the president and one of the directors of the defendant corporation as being the agent of cer*231tain parties for the exchange of first mortgage bonds ■ of the New York & Perry Coal & Iron…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Turner v. . City of NewburghNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Dalrymple v. . WilliamsNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Murray v. . BeardNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Bergmann v. . JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
- Knauss v. Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1894
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- Milch v. Westchester Fire InsuranceNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1895