Palmer v. Continental Casualty Co.

CURTIS, L-

Grant MeOartney was, on the twenty-eighth day of December, 1923, and for some years prior thereto had been, a licensed real estate broker under the provisions of an act of the legislature of this state (Stats. 1919, p. 1252). On that day the plaintiff deposited with him the sum of two thousand dollars, which sum of money he was to use in making the first payment on a piece of real property which plaintiff had agreed to purchase. He failed to use said money for that purpose, but evidently converted the same to his own use, and some time subsequent to the sixth day of March, 1924, he…