Case Name: Max Bengels, Respondent, v. Lester I. Woods et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1961-07-06
Citations: 14 A.D.2d 517
Docket Number: 
Parties: Max Bengels, Respondent, v. Lester I. Woods et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 517–517

Head Matter:
Max Bengels, Respondent, v. Lester I. Woods et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

Opinion:
The papers demonstrate no genuine or bona fide claim on the part of plaintiff. Opposed to the documentary proof, plaintiff presents merely an ingenious, and palpably unsupported, device to transform a transaction in which he acted as a principal — and from which he had to recede — into a claim for brokerage commissions. Plaintiff does not produce any prima facie support for ignoring the contract of sale which he signed as a principal, and which expressly disclaimed the intervention of any broker in procuring the sale. Concur — Rabin, J. P., Yalente, McNally, Eager and Steuer, JJ.