Case ID: nys_91/html/0347-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MacLEAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

REICHARD v. WALLACH.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
    December 23, 1904.)
    1. Brokers—Commissions—Compliance witi-i Contract.
    Where a contract for broker’s services provided that “commission or brokerage will be paid only to the one who actually makes and finally completes the sale and has the contract signed,” and plaintiff failed to show that any contract was signed between the owner and the purchaser procured, plaintiff was not entitled to recover commissions.
    Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Fifth District.
    Action by Henry Reichard against Carl M. Wallach. From a Municipal Court judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    Reversed.
    Argued before FREEDMAN, P. J., and GIEDERSEEEVE and MacLEAN, JJ.
    Stanislaus N. Tuckman, for appellant.
    Wales F. Severance, for respondent.
   MacLEAN, J.

Suing to recover commissions for the sale of real property, and testifying to the production of one ready and willing to buy upon terms acceptable, and satisfactory to the defendant, the plaintiff introduced in evidence what he claimed to be his written authorization. Assuming the sufficiency of the authority, it was therein and over the name of the defendant ex-' pressly stated that “commission or brokerage will, be paid only to the one who actually makes and finally completes the sale and has the contract signed.” Admittedly, no contract was signed, nor is there' evidence of any modification of the authorization in such regard. The plaintiff was therefore not entitled to recover.

Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. All concur.