Hodgson v. Lamberson

Plaintiff is a real estate broker in Detroit. He specializes in Twelfth street property. Defendants had purchased a vacant business lot having 20 feet frontage on this street on contract and had nearly completed the payments of the purchase price. For some years plaintiff had maintained his office building on this lot and paid a small rental. Although not given any writing plaintiff had the lot for sale as defendants’ broker for some time and on May 29, 1928, they gave him in writing an exclusive listing for 30 days. He did not sell the property in this period but continued his attempts to…