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Anna M. Angresani, Appellant, v. James Tozzi, Respondent.
    (Argued April 5, 1927;
    decided May 3, 1927.)
    
      Contract — services — verdict — action to recover on alleged contract for services — compromise verdict — immoral consideration.
    
    
      Angresani v. Tozzi, 217 App. Div. 642, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment, entered September 7, 1926, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The action was to recover the sum of $8,500 alleged to be due plaintiff for services, as housekeeper' for defendant for a term of four years and six months, it being alleged that defendant had agreed to pay for such services the sum of $150 per month. The jury awarded plaintiff a verdict of $2,500. The Appellate Division held that the verdict was clearly a compromise and could not be sustained. Furthermore, it appeared from the evidence that any agreement between the parties was founded upon an immoral consideration and could not be enforced.
    
      Andrew Byrne, Leonard F. Fish and Thomas J. O’ Neill for appellant.
    
      Irving Weinstein and Henry Silverman for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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