Bowe v. Gage
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eond du Lac county: Chestee A. EowleR, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover agent’s commissions upon the sale of a farm. The case was here before upon defendants’ appeal and a previous judgment was reversed. Bowe v. Gage, 121 Wis. 245, 106 N. W. 1074. The principal essential facts will he found there stated.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eond du Lac county: Chestee A. EowleR, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover agent’s commissions upon the sale of a farm. The case was here before upon defendants’ appeal and a previous judgment was reversed. Bowe v. Gage, 121 Wis. 245, 106 N. W. 1074. The principal essential facts will he found there stated. A new trial has now been had and a verdict returned which finds the facts to he as follows: (1) The plaintiffs were the procuring cause in effecting the sale of the farm by the defendants to Eerber; (2) the original agreement between…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
There can be no doubt that the plaintiffs would have been entitled to judgment had there been no modification of the original commission contract. By this contract the defendants agreed to pay two per cent, com*444mission, for the procuring of a purchaser for the farm at a price acceptable to the defendants. The plaintiffs procured a purchaser who made an offer of $17,000. Thereupon the defendants, by falsely representing that they had decided not to sell the farm, made a settlement with the plaintiffs for their services by paying them $25, and procured a receipt in full, and then proceeded to…
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