Smith v. Chapin Home for the Aged & Infirm
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Malcolm E. Smith and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of January, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Merrell, J.:
Plaintiffs are real estate brokers and defendant is a New York corporation. In 1914 defendant owned a plot of land on the north side of Sixty-sixth street between Lexington and Third avenues in the city of New York, 150 feet wide by a little over 100 feet in depth, which it had offered for sale. Plaintiffs applied for and, as they contend, obtained authority from defendant to list the property for sale and to procure a purchaser therefor, and in their complaint allege their employment by the defendant as agents, and that plaintiffs procured a purchaser for the property for…
2Cited by1 opinion
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