Cassidy v. Congdon

The plaintiff brought this action to recover a commission as a real-estate broker based upon the sale of a farm in Oxford by the defendants Palmer and Watson, executors and trustees under the will of Caroline H. Palmer, to the defendant Congdon. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant Congdon but against the other defendants. The present appeal is taken by them from the refusal of the trial court to set aside the verdict against them, which they claim to have had no reasonable support in the evidence. There was no antecedent employment of the plaintiff by them and her right to…