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Konrad Furubotn, Appellant, v. Tank Ship Building Corporation, Respondent.
    
      Commissions — action to recover amount' claimed as commissions for procuring orders for construction of ships ■— insufficiency of evidence to sustain verdict.
    
    
      Furubotn v. Tank Ship Bldg. Corporation, 194 App. Div. 735, ■ affirmed.
    (Argued March 22, 1922;
    decided April 18, 1922.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered January 20, 1921, 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 brought by the plaintiff to recover for commissions claimed to be due the plaintiff for procuring for the defendant orders for building two tank ships. The Appellate Division held that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the evidence, and that the plaintiff had completely failed to prove that the tankers were built under contracts and orders obtained through his efforts or that the contracts were procured by the plaintiff or that the orders for the building of the boats were brought about and obtained by the plaintiff as alleged in the complaint.
    
      John W. Crandall for appellant.
    
      Joseph G. Deane and Philip A. Walter for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.