Henry W. Savage, Inc. v. Wheelock
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort or contract, by a corporation engaged in business as a real estate broker, against Charles H. Wheelock, another "real ■estate broker who had no office and was not a member of the real .estate exchange, and Henry S. Moody, a real estate dealer engaged in the business of buying and selling real estate, to recover the amount of a commission upon a sale of the house and land of one Mrs. Glazier, numbered 772 on Washington Street in Brook-line, which the plaintiff was…
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Tort or contract, by a corporation engaged in business as a real estate broker, against Charles H. Wheelock, another "real ■estate broker who had no office and was not a member of the real .estate exchange, and Henry S. Moody, a real estate dealer engaged in the business of buying and selling real estate, to recover the amount of a commission upon a sale of the house and land of one Mrs. Glazier, numbered 772 on Washington Street in Brook-line, which the plaintiff was prevented from collecting by the wrongful and fraudulent acts and deceits of the defendants, the declaration, besides two…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The defendant Moody, wishing to buy a house owned by a Mrs. Glazier for less than it was offered to him by. the plaintiff corporation (which had it for sale for the owner), asked the defendant Wheelock (a real estate broker who had no office but did business at the house where he lived) to get the house for him for the lowest price at which it could be bought. Thereupon Wheelock saw Mrs. Glazier’s son (who acted for his mother throughout) and told him that he could sell the house for him if he would employ him as his broker. While Wheelock was still in his office at that time Glazier (the…
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