Trent Trust Co. v. Macfarlane

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

ROBERTSON, C. J..

Tbis is an. action of assumpsit to recover tbe sum of $125 claimed by the plaintiff to be due from the defendant for broker’s commissions upon the sale of a parcel of land belonging to the defendant.

The principal facts, some of which were expressly found by the court below while others were shown by uncontradicted evidence, were as follows: The defendant owned a piece of land in Honolulu for which he had requested the plaintiff, a real estate broker, to find a purchaser; the Clark Farm Company, Limited, in the early part of March 1911, desiring to…