Hammond v. Yona Varah Realty Corp.

Plaintiffs had a judgment here for over $13,000 in an action for brokerage commissions which were said to have been earned by the plaintiffs for obtaining a first mortgage loan of $1,600,000 on certain real property on behalf of the defendant.

The issue is very narrow and is encompassed in the claim that defendant employed the plaintiffs to apply for a mortgage loan of $1,700,000 in February, 1924, upon premises owned by the defendant for which a commission of three-fourths of one per cent of the amount of the loan was to be paid to the plaintiffs if they secured the loan.

The plaintiffs assert…