Hunter v. Blodget
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, H. Townsend Blodget, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 19th day of February, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of March, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. ' • ■
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The plaintiff and defendant were architects. Both were engaged in figuring upon and obtaining work for a firm of interior decorar tors. Plaintiff claims that the defendant agreed to.give him ten per cent of the gross amount of a certain contract then under consideration if he, the plaintiff, would not figure .on it, and he asserts that the defendant said that he, the defendant, received as a commission twenty per cent of the gross amount of the contract, wji.ich he would divide with the plaintiff. The gross amount- of the contract in question was $15,135. Had the-plaintiff obtained…
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- Ostrander v. SnyderNew York Supreme Court · 1893
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