Meagher v. Reeney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a real-estate broker to recover a commission, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Markham, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. The defendant employed the plaintiffs as real-estate brokers to procure a purchaser for certain real property in the city of Hartford at a price of $19,500, and agreed to pay the plaintiffs a commission of two per cent on the purchase price.
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Action by a real-estate broker to recover a commission, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Markham, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. The defendant employed the plaintiffs as real-estate brokers to procure a purchaser for certain real property in the city of Hartford at a price of $19,500, and agreed to pay the plaintiffs a commission of two per cent on the purchase price. The plaintiffs procured customers who entered into a written contract under seal with the defendant for the purchase of the property,…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The trial court finds that the defendant did not understand the English language, that she could not write, and that she never fully understood a bond for a deed; but the case went to trial on a general denial of the allegations of the complaint, and these findings are entirely outside of the issues. The single question of law raised by the appeal is whether a real-estate agent employed to procure a customer at a given price, has earned his commission when he procures a customer with whom his client enters into a binding contract for the sale of the property, either on the terms originally…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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