Laird v. Ahl
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Ella Ahl, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Wyoming on the 11th day of January, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from two orders entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of January, 191Q, denying, respectively, the defendant’s separate motions for a new trial made upon the minutes and upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The judgmént and order should be reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to the appellant to abide event.
The action was brought to recover commissions as a broker in procuring a purchaser for defendant’s farm of 223 acres.
The selling price was $60 per acre, $13,380 in all, and the commission five per cent. The proposed purchaser was one Ward. A parol agreement was made between the parties. The controversy was over the terms of this agreement. Plaintiff claimed that Ward was to pay $2,000 down in cash, and transfer to defendant a third mortgage on another farm for $2,000 if…
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