Brown v. Travellers' Life & Accident Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles O. Brown, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of thé defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 1st day of April, 1897, upon the dismissal of the complaint directed, by the court after a trial before the court arid a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of March, 1897, denying the • plaintiff’s, motion for a new trial. ■
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This action is brought to recover the value of services rendered by the plaintiff "as an engineer and expert in the examination of a building which had collapsed while in the course of erection,' causing loss of life and injuries to persons. There was evidence tend*43ing to show that the plaintiff was employed by one Johnson, an attorney at law, on behalf of the defendant. The nonsuit was. granted on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to establish the authority of Johnson to bind the defendant.
We think this disposition of the case was erroneous. The defendant was a foreign…
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