Court Opinion

ID: 5362540
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 07:31:49.003112+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:53.420893
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Dore, J.
(dissenting). I dissent and vote to affirm the judgment and order appealed from. Plaintiff never established a meeting of the minds of the parties on all the essential terms of the contract. Even on the testimony of plaintiff’s own client, when defendant’s secretary allegedly informed him that if he would pay certain sums of money as rent they could “ come down to close the deal,” plaintiff’s principal did not assent to this but said he would get in touch with his lawyer and would call him back, and when he came down to the final conference the negotiations were still in progress. It was clear under the facts established in the record that the defendant’s secretary had no authority whatever to conclude a lease of this magnitude in the manner alleged by plaintiff. It would be manifestly unjust to compel this defendant to pay commissions of $6,390 for allegedly effecting an agreement that was never established.
The order setting aside the verdict and dismissing the complaint and the judgment entered thereon should be affirmed, with costs.
Judgment and order reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event.