Robert Half Personnel Agencies, Inc. v. Certified Management Corp.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Judgment entered March 23, 1979, after inquest (Williams, J.), insofar as appealed from, affirmed, with $25 costs, upon the opinion of Williams, J.

The decision of the defendant to hire an accounting manager, at a lower salary than would have been required for the originally planned hiring of a controller or chief financial officer, did not abrogate the original fee arrangement between the parties (10 NY Jur, Contracts, § 406; cf. Davis v Bingham, 39 Misc 299, 300).

Subdivision 1 of section 185 of the General Business Law (as amd by L 1975, ch 632, § 17) provides in regard…