Arhart v. Stark
Superior Court of Buffalo
This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs against her, entered upon the verdict of a jury on the 12th day of Hay, 1893, for $363.79, and from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes of the judge presiding at the trial.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
While the record presented to us fails to disclose what the issues in the case are, the briefs of counsel show that the action is brought to recover commissions alleged to have been earned by the plaintiffs as real estate agents in the service of the defendant. The substantial question litigated upon the trial was one of fact, depending upon the credibility of the parties as witnesses for its solution by the jury.
The defendant refused to testify, on cross-examination, whether or not she had been previously convicted of keeping a house of ill-fame in the city of Buffalo, and thereupon the…
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