A. L. Perper v. Abraham M. Sonnabend and Whitehall Hotel & Surf Corporation

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant here seeks the reversal of a judgment of the trial court based on a verdict he directed against appellant, a real estate agent, suing for his commission for services he claimed he performed for the defendants relating to a sale of their hotel in Palm Beach.

Perper, the plaintiff, alleged he entered into an oral agreement with defendants that he would be entitled to a 5% commission if he found a purchaser ready, able and willing to purchase the hotel in Palm Beach on terms which he set out in his complaint. In his testimony, as stated by him in his brief here, he…