Loewenthal v. Klein
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Leo M. Klein and another, from an order and determination of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of June, 1913, affirming a judgment of the City Court of the City of New York in plaintiff’s favor, and an order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial, and also from the order and judgment of the City Court of the City of New York, entered pursuant to the said order…
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Appeal by the defendants, Leo M. Klein and another, from an order and determination of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of June, 1913, affirming a judgment of the City Court of the City of New York in plaintiff’s favor, and an order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial, and also from the order and judgment of the City Court of the City of New York, entered pursuant to the said order and determination of the Appellate Term.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
Action by a broker to recover commissions for procuring a lease of real estate. The execution of - the lease by defendants was admitted and the only question litigated at the trial was whether plaintiff were the procuring cause.
Sometime in September, 1912, plaintiff exhibited the premises in question to oneVoight, who was the manager and secretary of Renault Freres Selling Branch, Inc., a domestic corporation, which was the New York representative of a company doing business in Paris, France. Shortly thereafter the plain*335tiff, for the first time, communicated with the defendants…
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- Sibbald v. . the Bethlehem Iron CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Meyer v. Improved Property Holding Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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