Marsicano

This action was brought to recover the sum of $8,865.00 for services performed by the plaintiff corporation as broker in negotiating a lease of real property in San Francisco belonging to defendant. Judgment went for plaintiff for the full amount demanded in the complaint. The appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The lease negotiated by plaintiff was for a period of twenty-five years, and by its terms the rent for the first five years was to be one thousand five hundred dollars per month, or eighteen thousand dollars a year; for the second period of five years the monthly rent was to be one thousand seven hundred' and fifty dollars, aggregating for that period one hundred and five thousand dollars; for the third period of five years the monthly rental was two thousand dollars, making for that period of time the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; for the remaining ten years of the lease the monthly rental was two thousand two hundred dollars, amounting in that time to two hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. The total of the rent thus reserved to the defendant under the lease amounted to the sum of five hundred…