Goodell v. Hurlbut
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Richard H. Goodell, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of February, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term overruling the plaintiff’s demurrer to a separate defense set up in the eighth paragraph of the defendants’ answer, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Richard H. Goodell, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of February, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term overruling the plaintiff’s demurrer to a separate defense set up in the eighth paragraph of the defendants’ answer, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 29th day of January, 1896, overruling said demurrer.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The action is brought by the plaintiff to recover a commission which the defendants agreed to pay plaintiff for his services in negotiating charters of the steamers Nicaragua, Condor and George Dumois, of two and one-half per cent on the amount of tho charter hire agreed to he paid. The answer demurred to alleges that at the time of the agreement in question the plaintiff Avas an employee of a corporation under a stated and regular compensation ; that as such employee he was sent to the United States to negotiate and execute charters of the three steamers named in the complaint,…
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