Case ID: nys_98/html/0752-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TRUAX, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MOORE v. MAGUIRE.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
    April 24, 1906.)
    Brokers — Commissions—Soteiciency oe Service.
    A broker for the owner of real estate, who procures a purchaser ready and able to take the property at the price fixed by the owner, is entitled to his commissions.
    [Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see vol. 8, Cent. Dig. Brokers, §§ 69, 75-79, 81, ^1, 92, 94-96.]
    Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Seventh District.
    
      Action by Godfrey Moore against Sylvester Maguire. From a judgment dismissing the complaint, plaintiff appeals.
    Reversed.
    Argued before SCOTT, P. J.,. and TRUAX and BISCHOFF, JJ.
    Lewkowitz & Schaap, for appellant.
    Leon Laski, for respondent.
   TRUAX, J.

The action was brought to recover the sum of $250 as commission to be paid by the defendant to the plaintiff upon the sale of certain premises in the city of New York. The authorization of the plaintiff was in writing^ and the evidence shows that the plaintiff procured a purchaser who was ready and able to take the property at the price named by the defendant. See Putter v. Berger, 95 App. Div. 62, 88 N. Y. Supp. 462, and Gilder v. Davis, 137 N. Y. 504, 33 N. E. 599, 20 L. R. A. 398.

Judgment is reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

All concur.