Gordon v. Kaplan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

White, J.

The bill alleges that one of the defendants, Kaplan, while acting as complainants’ agent for the sale of their tenement-house in Jersey City, “scalped” the sale by interposing another of the defendants, Lieberfeld (whose niece Kaplan was engaged to marry), as a sham purchaser and a pretended reseller between complainants, the real vendors, and one Richard Harold and his wife, who were the ultimate vendees, whereby there was realized an advance in price of $5,000 above the sum complainants accepted, thinking it was the real price, of which…