108 N.Y.S. 48 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1908
■ The plaintiffs have recovered a judgment in this action, represent-' ing broker’s commissions, arising, from the alleged sale of real property owned by the defendant. The record- discloses the following facts, upon, which thé judgment rests-: The-defendant' owned preiri-ises known as Mo. 540 Carleton avenue,'Brooklyn. The plaintiffs are real estate brokers, having in their employ, a man whose special business it-'isrto solicit- for his employers the'placing of real estate in their hands for sale and renting,. This' employee called upon the defendant and. inquired if her house was for sale; he testifies that lie did not think' she' was particularly anxious to put her place on the market, but that she finally said she would sell it for $10,000, and the witness says: “ I took out and made my memorandum in the usual course and reported it to the office.” A short time afterward a Mrs. Thier called at plaintiffs’ office in search of a residence property, arid one of their employees called the defendant on the telephone and procured her consent to Mrs. Tiller’s inspection of the property; she went to the house and the defendant conducted.her through the house and told her that its price was $10,000, hut that she would have to confer with her'husband.before she sold it. Mrs. Tiller asked if she might, bring' her. husband to look at the property the next day, and the' defendant, consented. Upon her second' visit ■Mrs: Thier stated to the defendant that she' was pleased with the . property and would .pay $10,000 for it, and defendant again informed ■herthat she would hake to confer with her-husband before selling; “she couldn’t sell it-*without consulting her husband;” that she would require a. week in which to talk the matter over with him, and it was agreed that she should then let Mrs, Thier know her conclusion. About a week afterward the defendant wrote Mrs, Thief that her husband would not consent to" the salé: This evidence did
This branch of’the case presents substantially the same facts-that were before this court in Haase v. Schneider (112 App. Div. 336). The rule there enunciated controls the disposition of the case at'bar, and the judgment must be reversed and a new trial ordered, costs to abide the event.
• Woodwabd, Jebes and Gaybob, J J., concurred; Millee, J., concurred on the ground that the plaintiffs failed to prove any contract of employment, either express or implied.
Judgment of the Municipal Court reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide the event.