Boyd v. Vale
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Bichard C. Boyd, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Yew York on the 13th day of November, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Yew York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of November, 1902, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The action is to recover for services upon a quantum meruit. The plaintiff was nonsuited at the close of his evidence. He excepted and asked to go to the jury upon the questions of fact. The plaintiff testified, in substance, that he was employed by the defendant, who owned a coffee plantation in the United States of Colombia, to procure $300,000 to be invested, among other things, in the agriculture and live stock business, the exporting and importing business and the construction and operation of lines of transportation there and in Venezuela upon the express understanding and…
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