106 N.Y.S. 48 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1907
The plaintiff and defendant were architects. Both were engaged in figuring upon and obtaining work for a firm of interior decorar tors. Plaintiff claims that the defendant agreed to.give him ten per cent of the gross amount of a certain contract then under consideration if he, the plaintiff, would not figure .on it, and he asserts that the defendant said that he, the defendant, received as a commission twenty per cent of the gross amount of the contract, wji.ich he would divide with the plaintiff. The gross amount- of the contract in question was $15,135. Had the-plaintiff obtained the work he would have received five per cent of that amount, or $756.75, but he claims that in consideration of his doing nothing at. all the defendant agreed to give him twice that amount, or $1,513.50., and the judgment appealed from awards him the latter sum," The
The judgment and order must be reversed.
Jenks, Hooker, Gaynor and Rich, JJ., concurred.'
Judgment and order reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide the -event.