Bradley v. Gorham
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover a commission rendered as a real estate broker, brought by defendant’s appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace to the court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bishop, J. ; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plaintiff, on the trial of the cause, offered evidence that the defendant in April, 1898, put a tract of land in which she had an interest in his hands for sale; that he afterwards had several interviews with one Lounsbury, at which he attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate a sale to him; that in October, 1899, the defendant discharged him; and that a few weeks later she made a sale of half the property to Lounsbury, of which sale the plaintiff was the procuring cause. For a commission on the price paid this suit was brought.
Lounsbury was a witness for the defendant, and testified that the…
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