Seilheimer v. Melville

This action for real estate commissions presents a single issue on appeal: whether a plaintiff’s rebuttal witness, testifying to matters which defendant had denied, was erroneously permitted to give impeachment testimony as to matters entirely collateral to the issues at trial. In the context in which the evidence was offered, we find no error in its admission.

Charles H. Seilheimer, Jr., a licensed real estate broker, became holder óf a territorial franchise from Previews, Inc., a multistate brokerage firm. He discussed with Percy G. Melville and Marshall Wallach, licensed real estate…