In an action by a loan broker against a client who had refused to take the loan after a lender had been secured, the defendant testified that he told the lender's attorney that he would not complete the loan until he had arranged to pay an existing mortgage before maturity, and a day or so later he told him that he had notified the mortgagee that the negotiations pending for the paying off of his loan had terminated. He was then asked," What caused the making of that statement? What transpired between you and plaintiff that led you to make that statement to the mortgagee, that the transaction had terminated?" Defendant had testified fully as to his conversation with plaintiff. Held, that the objection to the question was properly sustained. Payne v. Williams, 178 N. Y. 589, 70 N. E. 1104.