Travis v. Bowron
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plain tiffs, John L. Travis and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 4th' day of December, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered on the same day denying the plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial made upon the' minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
We think that the question whether plaintiffs’ efforts were the procuring cause of the sale by defendants of the property described in- the complaint was one of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court. Plaintiffs are a firm of real estate brokers. There was evidence from which the jury might have found that in January, 1907, the attention of one Bussell Hopkins was called to an advertisement by them' to the effect that they had for sale water-front properties located on the Hudson river. In response to his request, one of the firm called on Hopkins at 1080 Fifth avenue, in…
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