Garrick-Aug Associates Store Leasing, Inc. v. Shefa Land Corp.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Tompkins, J.), entered May 7, 2001, after a non-jury trial, in plaintiff’s favor and against defendant in the amount of $1,221,370, plus interest from August 1, 1998 and costs, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The evidence duly credited by the trial court established that plaintiff was the procuring cause of the lease executed between defendant and the tenant that plaintiff brought to its attention and the court properly awarded damages in quantum meruit (see, Gordon Co. v Peninsula N. Y. Partnership, 245 AD2d 189). The fact that plaintiff did…