Case ID: njl_101/html/0212-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HERMAN BROTMAN, RESPONDENT, v. LOUIS TRAIMAN, APPELLANT.
    Argued October 22, 1924
    Decided February 19, 1925.
    The judges being equally divided on. the question whether the judgment should be reversed, the judgment is affirmed solely because of such division, which renders any opinion by the court impossible.
    This was an action in the Supreme Court to recover on a broker’s commission for the sale of real estate. The case was tried at the Cumberland Circuit before Judge Schimpf and a jury. The trial judge directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and defendant appeals to this court.
    For the appellant, Leroy W. Loier.
    
    For the respondent, Herbert C. Bartlett.
    
   Per Curiam.

The judgment under review herein is affirmed by an equally divided court.

For affirmance — The Chancellor, Trenchard, Kalisch, Black, Katzenbach, Yan Buskirk, McG-lennon, JJ. 7.

For reversal — The Chief Justice, Parker, Minturn, Campbell, Lloyd, Clark, Kays, JJ. 7.