Cavanaugh v. Conway

This is an action in assumpsit brought by a real estate broker to recover a commission. The case was tried before Mr. Justice Barrows and a jury, in the .Superior Court, January 19, 1914, and after the presentation of plaintiff’s case the judge granted the defendant’s motion to nonsuit the plaintiff. The case is now before this court upon plaintiff’s bill of exceptions, the exception taken to the ¡granting of the nonsuit being the sole exception.

From the evidence presented it appeared that the defendant in March, 1913, placed in the hands of the plaintiff, who was a real estate broker,…