Case Name: OSCAR D. & HERBERT V. DIKE v. HAIGHT
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-03-05
Citations: 108 N.Y.S. 1066
Docket Number: 
Parties: OSCAR D. & HERBERT V. DIKE v. HAIGHT.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 108
Pages: 1066–1067

Head Matter:
OSCAR D. & HERBERT V. DIKE v. HAIGHT.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
March 5, 1908.)
1. Evidence—Self-Serving Declaration—Brokers—Actions for Compensation.
In an action for commissions by a real estate broker on a contract under which It had earned its Commissions when the contract of sale was signed, defendant’s self-serving declaration that the payment of commissions was to await the delivery of the deed was of no effect.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 20, Evidence, §§ 1068-1104.]
2. Same—Admissions.
In an action by a real estate broker for commissions, defendant’s admission that plaintiff procured the sale, as expressed in the contract between the vendor and purchaser, was evidence for plaintiff.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig: vol. 20, Evidence, §§ 786-808.]
MacLean, J., dissenting.
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Ninth District.
Action by Oscar D. & Herbert V. Dike against George W. Haight. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed.
Argued before GIDDERSREEVE, P. J., and BISCHOFE and MacLEAN, JJ.
Andrew F. Murray, for appellant.
Oakes & Van Amringe (Charles Oakes, of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
BISCHOFF, J.
The plaintiff earned its commissions, as broker, when the contract, of sale was signed; and the justice properly determined that this corporation was the procuring cause of the sale. The defendant's self-serving declaration that the payment of commissions was to await the delivery of the deed had, of course, no effect upon the actual agreement under which the broker was employed, for the purposes of the issue between these parties; but the admission of the fact that this broker did procure the sale, as expressed in the contract between vendor and purchaser, was evidence for the plaintiff. Whether the defendant might have established a defense of deceit in the procurement of his acceptance of the purchaser is not a question before us, since no such issue was presented to the court below.
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
GILDERSLEEVE, P. J., concurs.