84 N.Y.S. 969 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1903
We do not think it can be said that under the evidence produced the plaintiff was entitled to recover. The action is brought to recover upon an assigned claim for broker’s commission. The testimony of the plaintiff is to the effect that he secured the defendant’s leasehold for sale, and offered it, at the price named by the defendant, to the party who subsequently became the purchaser. The evidence, however, fails to show that plaintiff’s assignor was the procuring cause of the sale.
It appears that although the parties were originally brought together by the plaintiff’s assignor, still, at that time, the parties had not agreed upon'terms. Subsequently, and some weeks later, the
The judgment should be reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event. All concur.