Jensen v. Jones Miller, Inc.

This is an action by a principal against her brokers to recover secret profits and commissions paid upon a sale of real estate. By her complaint plaintiff alleged that on or about June 20, 1939, she and her co-trustee authorized defendants Jones Miller, Inc., Ltd., and Harry Miller, as brokers, to procure a purchaser for certain described real property at a minimum price of $35,000 or such higher price as said defendants might obtain, and orally agreed that in the event that such purchaser was procured through the efforts of the named defendants, the latter would be paid a commission of five…