Ritchey v. Murphey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Daniel P. Ritchey, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of May, 1917, upon a dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The plaintiff is a real estate broker. The defendant, in the year 1916, was the lessee of an hotel in the city of New York, and the owner of the furniture therein and of a stock of supplies. Being desirous of retiring from business she employed the plaintiff to procure some one who would take an assignment of her lease (which had three and one-half years to run), and would purchase her furniture and stock. The plaintiff succeeded in finding such a purchaser in the person of one Wilbraham and after the usual dickering, defendant and Wilbraham came to an agreement which was put in…
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