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Dowd & Clemens, Inc., Respondent, v. Emily K. Goodwin et al., Appellants.
    
      Commissions — brokers — action to recover real estate brokers' commissions on making lease — defense that another was procuring cause.
    
    
      Dowd & Clemens, Inc., v. Goodwin, 222 App. Div. 737, affirmed.
    (Argued February 20, 1928;
    decided March 27, 1928.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 27, 1927, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was to recover real estate broker’s commissions on the making of a lease. The question was whether the lease referred to was the result of plaintiff’s efforts or whether another broker was the procuring cause.
    
      James E. Duross for appellants.
    
      Louis L. Archer and Joseph V. Mitchell for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.