Paulsrud v. Tyler

Christianson, Justice.

This is an action to recover the reasonable value of services performed by plaintiffs as real estate brokers for defendant. The case was tried to the court, and these, in substance, are the facts found: That defendant authorized plaintiff R. H. Benham to act as his agent in procuring a purchaser of certain real estate owned by him in Dakota county, Minnesota, at a list price of $15,000 cash; that, pursuant to such authorization, plaintiff Benham found as a purchaser Cranford Ingham, who, as a consequence of the services rendered by plaintiffs, Benham and H. I. Paulsrud,…