Case Name: Theodore F. Van Dorn et al., Respondents, v. Roscoe Crary, Appellant, Impleaded with Others
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1922-05-31
Citations: 233 N.Y. 657
Docket Number: 
Parties: Theodore F. Van Dorn et al., Respondents, v. Roscoe Crary, Appellant, Impleaded with Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 233
Pages: 657–657

Head Matter:
Theodore F. Van Dorn et al., Respondents, v. Roscoe Crary, Appellant, Impleaded with Others.
Commissions —• sale of property belonging to two corporations — when president of one corporation liable under oral agreement to personally pay commissions.
Von Dorn v. Crary, 198 App. Div. 931, affirmed.
(Argued May 4, 1922;
decided May 31, 1922.)
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered August 12, 1921, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a verdict. The action was to recover brokers’ commissions on the joint sale of 70,000 acres of timber lands of the East Lake Lumber Company, and a large concrete sawmill and equipment, with a small tract of land on which the mill stood, owned by the defendant Dare Lumber Company. Defendant, appellant, was president of the Dare Lumber Company and his liability was predicated upon his alleged oral agreement to personally pay the commissions.
H. D. Hinman for appellant.
Nathan Ballin, William M. K. Olcolt and Walter E. Ernst for respondents.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Dissenting: Hogan, J.