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28 A.D. 109

Richards v. Washburn

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1898-07-01

Appeal by the plaintiffs, J. Tredwell Richards and Alfred S'. Brown, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of .New York on the 26th day of November, 1897, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.

Decided 1898-07-01

Rumsey, J.:

¶1Upon the former appeal it was held that if the plaintiffs were acting as .attorneys for the defendants it was their duty to obey the defendants’ instructions, and, when requested, they should have omitted the receiver’s clause which they put into the mortgage, and if they were acting for Harbeck it was their duty to disclose that fact to the defendants; and if, omitting that duty, they were not able to procure the policy of insurance because they followed Harbeck’s instructions, they had failed to perform their contract, and in either case they were not entitled to' recover. There is no question in this case as to the employment of the plaintiffs by the defendants, but it is established-by the evidence, as it was established upon the former trial, that, having been employed by the defendants to procure the policy of insurance, they insisted, at the' direction of Harbeck, in inserting in the mortgage the provision for the receiver against the instructions of the defendants, and that that insistence was the reason, why the policy of insurance was not obtained and the loan not completed. The case is precisely, therefore, within the reasoning of the former decision, and it must be affirmed upon its authority. (Richards v. Washburn, 14 App. Div. 237.)

¶2The judgment must be affirmed, with costs,-

¶3Van Brunt, P. J., Barrett, Patterson and McLaughlin, JJ., concurred.

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