
    Charles Herweg and James Colton, Respondents, v. William Molitor, Appellant.
    
      Principal and agent — real estate broker — evidence not showing right to commissions for sale of land.
    
    Appeal from a judgment of the Municipal Court in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant.
   Woodward, J.:

The plaintiffs bring this action to recover a commission alleged to be due to them from the defendant for effecting a sale of certain real estate. The defendant was the owner of two semi-detached houses, and he gave the plaintiffs a written authority, without date, to sell some property, but which particular property does not appear from the writing. On the trial plaintiffs called the defendant as their witness, and hi testified that the written authority was for the sale of the second house; that it was given to the plaintiffs after the premises in question had been sold to one Mrs. Haug. This evidence on the part of defendant, as plaintiffs’ witness, is strongly corroborated by six disinterested witnesses, and it is difficult to find any evidence in support of the plaintiffs’ claim that they were the procuring cause of the sale to Mrs. Haug. She testifies positively that she was not introduced to the defendant by the plaintiffs; that she never saw either of them until after she had opened negotiations with the defendant personally, and the story told by the defendant and his witnesses is all so convincing in its detail and character that it seems to me it would be a perversion of justice to permit this judgment to stand. The judgment appealed from should be reversed. Jenks, Hooker, Gaynor and Miller, JJ., concurred. Judgment of the Municipal Court reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide the event.  