Sullivan v. Tufts
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by a real estate broker to recover a commission for effecting a sale of certain real estate belonging to the defendant, in that part of Boston called Charlestown, known as Banker Hill Terraces, and sold on March 2, 1907, to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston for $60,000. Writ dated May 20,1907. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Lawton, J. The facts which could have been found upon the evidence are stated in the opinion.
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Contract by a real estate broker to recover a commission for effecting a sale of certain real estate belonging to the defendant, in that part of Boston called Charlestown, known as Banker Hill Terraces, and sold on March 2, 1907, to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston for $60,000. Writ dated May 20,1907. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Lawton, J. The facts which could have been found upon the evidence are stated in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant asked for certain rulings, among which were the following: “ 4. If the plaintiff while leading the…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
It is plain upon the plaintiff’s testimony, that the jury could find he had been employed by the defendant, act*157ing through her husband as agent, to effect a sale, and that after he had begun negotiations with the purchaser they were suspended, with the understanding by him, and by the parties, that they had not been abandoned, and were to be shortly resumed, but before the time arrived for taking them up, the parties, through the agency of another broker, who had been employed by the purchaser, agreed upon the terms which he had arranged, and, unknown to the plaintiff, completed the sale. If…
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