Bruce v. Meserve
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by a real estate broker to recover $312.50 as a commission for procuring a customer to purchase from the defendant certain real estate numbered 454 on Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington. Writ dated May 23, 1916. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. At the close of the evidence, which is described in the opinion, the defendant asked the judge to rule that upon all the evidence the plaintiff was not entitled to recover.
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Contract by a real estate broker to recover $312.50 as a commission for procuring a customer to purchase from the defendant certain real estate numbered 454 on Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington. Writ dated May 23, 1916. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. At the close of the evidence, which is described in the opinion, the defendant asked the judge to rule that upon all the evidence the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. The judge refused to make this ruling and submitted the case to the jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $319.48. The…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action by a broker to recover a commission for procuring a customer to buy the defendant’s real estate. There was evidence from which it might have been found, as the view most favorable to the plaintiff, that he was appointed by the defendant exclusive agent to get “a purchaser for the sale of her Massachusetts Avenue property;” that he was familiar with the property and told her it was well worth eleven or twelve thousand dollars; that he secured an offer of $11,000 from one Viano, and that when this was communicated to the defendant she replied, “When he offers $11,000 for it,…
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- Woods v. MatthewsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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