Chasra Co. v. Beach Thirty-First Street Corp.

— -Judgment reversed upon the facts, with costs, and judgment directed against defendant and in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $20,750, with interest from the 3d day of August, 1925, with costs. Defendant admits in its answer that the sum of $20,000 was paid upon the contract, and its witness Herrick, a lawyer of twenty-five years standing at the bar, testified affirmatively that the fee of $750 for examination of the title was not excessive. While we are of opinion that the learned trial court was right in basing its judgment upon conditions existing at the time of the rendition of…