Riley v. Ackley
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from judgment on report of referee. Action by Charles Riley against John T. Ackley. Defendant appeals from a judgment for plaintiff, entered on trial by a referee.
1Opinion of the CourtBrady, J.
This action was brought to compel an accounting. It appears that during the year 1883 the plaintiff built on Forty-Eighth street a number of first-class tenement houses for the purposes of sale, and during the summer, as some of the houses approached completion, they were placed in the hands of a broker for sale. Through his instrumentality the plaintiff and defendant were brought together, and they entered into a contract, dated August 18th, whereby the plaintiff contracted to sell to the defendant four of the houses, and purchased from the defendant a dairy farm at Goshen, upon which the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fire Department v. ChapmanNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1882