R. A. Poff & Co. v. Ottaway
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtEggleston, J.
This is an action at law to recover a brokerage commission which R. A. Poff & Company, Inc., claimed it had earned in effecting the sale of a residence owned by James E. Ottaway and Jacqueline L. Ottaway, his wife. There was a trial by jury which resulted in a verdict for the defendants, and to review the judgment entered on that verdict the present writ has been allowed.
R. A. Poff & Company, Inc., is a real estate brokerage concern operating in the city of Roanoke. In the summer of 1948, George- P. Washburn, one of its representatives* noted from a newspaper advertisement that the Ottaways…
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