Johnson v. Lord
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, James A. Johnson, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of April, 1898, upon the dismissal of his complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings Oounty Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiff alleges in the complaint that he was a real estate broker; that one Robertson, as the agent of the defendants, who were the owners of 102 acres of land at Newtown, Queens county, employed him as such broker to procure a purchaser for said land, and that on March 22, 1892, he obtained one Meyer as such purchaser, which was satisfactory to the defendants, who on August 8, 1893, sold and conveyed the land to said Meyer for $138,630.69; that the,plaintiff was the procuring cause of the sale and that the usual brokerage is two and one-half per centnm, no part of which…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sibbald v. . the Bethlehem Iron CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
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