Krause v. Boraks

Plaintiff Stanley S. Krause, an attorney authorized to practice in this State, brought an action in assumpsit in the common pleas court for the city of Detroit upon an oral agreement for fees with a count in quantum meruit, against defendants Ludwig Boraks and Lawrence I. Yaffa, individually and doing business as Boraks Realty Investment Company.

The principal defendant, Boraks, a licensed real-estate broker, had listed with him for sale at a cash price of $37,000, property in the city of Detroit, used and occupied by a Danish Lutheran Church. A cooperating broker, the Trasher-Thomas Company,…