Lilienthal v. German American Brewing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The German American Brewing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of February, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order bearing date the 6th day of February,. 1907, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
In the year 1904 a salesman óf the plaintiffs, who are copartners, bargained with defendant for the purchase of a carload of hops of the growth of 1905, to be delivered after January 1, 1906, at twenty-seven cents per pound.
By mutual memoranda, signed by the plaintiffs and defendant, this bargain was confirmed. Upon the salesman’s return to plaintiffs’ place of business, he reported to the plaintiffs that the president of the defendant had been largely instrumental in enabling him to sell two other carloads of hops and that , the plaintiffs owed some kind of compensation…
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