Axe v. Tolbert
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Tuscola; Beach, J. Assumpsit by William Axe and another, doing business as William Axe & Son, against Catherine Tolbert and Dorr McGlocklin, for brokers’ commissions. Judgment for defendant on a directed verdict. Plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
Defendants resided upon and owned a farm consisting of about 300 acres, located in Tuscola county, Mich. Plaintiffs were a real estate firm located in Bay City, Mich., selling as agents and handling mostly farm lands. Their practice was to obtain what they called “options,” on farms largely in Tuscola, Bay, Saginaw, and Midland counties and then secure purchasers by a system of advertising and soliciting, the larger part of their customers being from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, in which States they particularly advertised and solicited.
On June 26, 1912, William Axe, the…
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