Freedman v. Epstein

Appeal by defendant from a judgment for $167 in an action for broker’s commissions for selling defendant’s drug store at 196 Roebling street, Brooklyn. Defendant contends that plaintiff was not the efficient agent or procuring cause of the sale.

Plaintiff testified that defendant authorized him to procure a purchaser for the store who would pay $3,500, $1,000 cash and the balance by way of mortgage, and that thereafter he spoke to one Kobre concerning the store, and told defendant he was sending him a customer by the name of Kobre to look at the store; that thereafter the store was sold by the…