Case Name: KYLE et al. v. HORBERT
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-04-08
Citations: 122 N.Y.S. 204
Docket Number: 
Parties: KYLE et al. v. HORBERT.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 122
Pages: 204–205

Head Matter:
KYLE et al. v. HORBERT.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
April 8, 1910.)
Principal and Agent (§ 132 )—Disclosed Principal—Liability.
Where an agent acts as such for a disclosed principal in employing brokers to sell land, the principal, and not the agent, is liable for the brokers’ commissions.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Principal and Agent, Cent. Dig. §§ 467-471; Dec. Dig. § 132. ]
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Seventh District.
Action by John H. Kyle and another, composing the firm of James Kyle & Sons, against Margaret Horbert. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Argued before SEABURY, LEHMAN, and GAVEGAN, JJ.
Maurice B. & Daniel W. Blumenthal, for appellant.
Campbell & Moore, for respondents.
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This action was brought to recover commissions for procuring a purchaser ready, willing, and able to buy certain real property at the request of the defendant. The evidence establishes that the defendant was acting as agent for a disclosed principal. The principal, and not the agent, is therefore liable for the commissions alleged to have been earned.
Judgment reversed, and a new-trial ordered,'with costs to the appellant to abide the event.