Douglas Real Estate Management Corp. v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Defendant appeals from a judgment recovered by plaintiff for real estate brokerage commissions upon a lease to the State of New York of space in a building in the city of Albany.

Defendant was itself the lessee of the entire building’ under a lease for a term of 15 years, executed in 1947. At that time the State occupied 105,892 square feet of space in the building under leases expiring April 30, 1951, which the owner assigned to defendant, and defendant occupied, and continued to occupy, the remaining 74,209 square feet.

After acquiring its leasehold interest, defendant employed plaintiff as…