Case ID: nys_23/html/1144-02.html
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Author: {"author": "DYKMAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PIERSON, Appellant, v. MUNRO, Respondent.
    (Supreme Court, General Term, Second Department.
    May 8, 1893.)
    Action by Edgar S. Pierson against Norman L. Munro. The complaint was dismissed, and plaintiff appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Edward Schenck, for appellant.
    Blanchard, Gay & Phelps, (Joseph G. Gay, of counsel,) for respondent.
   DYKMAN, J.

This is an action to recover commissions for the sale of the plant and business of the defendant in the city of New York, consisting of a printing and publishing establishment, real property, machinery, plates, and printing presses, several publications, and the good will of all the business. The price fixed for the property was $2,000,000, and the commission to be paid in case of a sale was fixed at $75,000, and that is the amount claimed in this action. The complaint was dismissed upon the trial because no sale was established. There was no effort to prove a sale, because none had been effected, but the plaintiff claimed the right to reover without showing a sale, on the ground that the defendant had overstated the productivity of the plant. The plain and conclusive answer to the proposition was that the defendant had made no representations upon the subject. We think the judgment may be sustained upon two grounds: First, the defendant never employed the plaintiff to make the sale; and, second, that no sale was ever made. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.