Scott v. Lloyd
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the County Court of Pueblo County. This action was commenced before a justice of the peace in Pueblo county, to recover the sum of $150 commission for the sale of certain real estate in the city of Pueblo. It was appealed to the county court and tried to the court without formal pleadings, and judgment rendered for defendants.
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Error to the County Court of Pueblo County. This action was commenced before a justice of the peace in Pueblo county, to recover the sum of $150 commission for the sale of certain real estate in the city of Pueblo. It was appealed to the county court and tried to the court without formal pleadings, and judgment rendered for defendants. From the evidence it appears that the plaintiffs were real estate agents in the city of Pueblo ; that the defendants were the owners of lots 4 and 5 in block 11 in the County Addition to that city, and that they placed said property in the hands of plaintiffs…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard
The principal defense relied on in the court below, and the one most strenuously urged in argument before us, is the alleged misconduct on the part of plaintiffs in agreeing to divide their commission with the purchaser; and the admission of the evidence of this fact and the effect given to it by the court constitutes the principal error assigned by plaintiffs in error for a reversal of the judgment.
It is manifest, from the examination of the evidence disclosed in the record, that this fact was regarded by the court below as sufficient to defeat the plaintiffs’ recoveiy, since, aside from…
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