Court Opinion

ID: 5198433
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 15:47:22.551736+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:27:09.409079
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam :
The. defendants,, who owned two houses,, hired the plaintiff as a broker to procure purchasers. The plaintiff brought Greenberg and Schiller as purchasers to the defendants. One of the defendants. testifies that plaintiff .then told him that they had seen the houses and were ready to purchase them; jffiat thereupon defendant asked him if they had seen mechanics and plumbers working on it, and a scaffold, and that Greenberg answered- that he had examined it and everything was.all right. Greenberg then asked if .he had any violations, and the witness answered yes, and showed a contract with a mechanic that was ‘ satisfactory to the department. Green-berg suggested that it be put in the contract, but the owner refused, *277saying that they would put in the contract, with the mechanics for removing the violations. • Thereupon the purchasers said that they would “ do everything, * * * we will take 'your word for it.” The plaintiff then asked if they would take a deposit; the defendants refused, but finally accepted a deposit from each purchaser. Thereupon a receipt was given by the defendants, which provided that a contract should be made two days later — June sixteenth—at a certain place, title to be delivered on August first thereafter. When the parties met at the appointed time and place, an attorney for the purchaser insisted- that the removal of the violations should be embodied in the contract. The defendants refused, saying that' they had not agreed. At the same time they again exhibited the contract with the mechanics, and stated that they would see to it that the violations were removed before the deed was delivered. Thereupon the purchasers said that they did not want the premises, but demanded' their deposits, which were finally paid to them. ¡Nothing further was done. Although the proposed purchasers were called to the stand after the defendants had given their testimony, neither of them contradicted the defendants. The broker now sues for his commissions. If the testimony of the defendants is to be credited, then the purchasers insisted upon more onerous terms in the contract than those which were verbally agreed upon between them, and the defendants were not bound to execute such contract. Under such circumstances the plaintiff did not produce a purchaser willing to execute a contract upon the terms prescribed. (Platt v. Kohler, 65 Hun, 559; Pullich v. Casey, 43 App. Div. 122.)
The judgment is reversed and a new trial ordered, costs to abide the event.
Woodward, Jerks, Hooker and Rich, JJ., concurred.
Judgment and order of the County Court of ¡Kings county reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide the event.