Brindley v. Brook

Pee Cueiam.

Plaintiff below brought suit to recover commissions as a broker employed to effect a sale or exchange of the defendants’ house and lot. The employment was a verbal one, and the plaintiff procured a contract to be entered into between the defendants and the Pavonia Holding Corporation, whereby the latter agreed to convey to the defendants a certain property in Trenton and the defendants agreed to convey their house and lot to the Pavonia Corporation.

The contract contained a provision that the defendants would “pay to Fred Brindley, Jr., the agent [the plaintiff], a commission of…