Soloff v. Atlantic Coast Building & Loan Ass'n

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Atlantic County Court of Common Pleas entered in favor of the plaintiff by *1151direction of the trial judge. The suit was by a broker upon an alleged oral agreement of brokerage followed by a letter to the owner in an attempt to comply with the tenth section of the statute of frauds.

This section requires that when the broker is authorized orally to sell lands he shall within five days send the owner a notice, in writing, “setting forth the terms of such oral agreement and stating the rate or amount of commission to be paid thereunder.” The notice sent in…