Notman v. Galveston Steamship Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Charles P. Notman and another, composing the firm, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of- the county of Kings on the 13th day of November, 1909, setting aside the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiffs and granting a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
Plaintiffs are shipbrokers, doing business under the firm name of J. W. Elwell & Co. The complaint alleges, and' the answer failing to deny admits, that on or about December 30, 1905, they, acting as such brokers* concluded in behalf of defendant negotiations for a charter of the steamship Galveston to one A. B. Wolvin, and on that day a charter party was executed. This charter party speci*852tied the. time of the hiring to lie “.for three months, option of three more months,” and also contained a .clause: “ 14. That the Charterers shall have the option of continuing this charter for a…
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