Legal Opinion

Chesser v. Kahn

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided July 20, 1956No. 1823Published

1Opinion of the Court

HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal is by a real estate broker from a judgment awarding a real estate salesman his share of a commission collected by the broker. Accepting the salesman’s testimony, as the trial court evidently did, there is no question that the sale producing the commission was effected through the efforts of the salesman and that the broker had agreed that the salesman would receive one-half of the commission if and when collected. The broker argues that, even if this be true the salesman was not entitled to share the commission because of Code, § 45-1408(e) which makes it…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Riddell v. HowarDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1952

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