25 N.Y.S. 758 | New York Court of Common Pleas | 1893
The complaint was in form for money had and received to plaintiff’s use, and the recovery was upon defendant’s promise to divide his commissions, as a real-estate broker, to be received upon the sale of certain real property which had been given to plaintiff for sale, and which the latter had employed defendant to sell. Ordinarily, the rule that the recovery must be secundum allegata et probata should prevail. Romeyn v. Sickles, (N. Y. App.) 15 N. E. Rep. 698. It is competent to the parties, however,, to consent to the litigation of a cause of action other than the one pleaded, and consent is inferable from the fact that evidence of the substituted cause of action was received without objection. Frear v. Sweet, 118 N. Y. 454, 23 N. E. Rep. 910. In the present instance, therefore, the judgment is unassailable because of variance between the pleadings and the proof, as appellant contends-
Whether or not the vendor requested defendant to pay part of the commissions to plaintiff could not in any wise affect plaintiff’s
Again, whether or not the agreement to divide the commissions was made, was a question to be determined by the justice below upon the conflicting testimony of the parties to this action; and the apparent inconsistency of defendant’s testimony with that of other and disinterested witnesses, regarding other facts, we think, authorized the justice to credit plaintiff, rather than defendant. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.