Holbrook-Blackwelder Real Estate & Trust Co. v. Hartman
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon Jesse A. McDonald, Judge. .Statement.' — Plaintiff is a Missouri corporation and maintains an office in the city of St. Louis. Defendants are residents of said city.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon Jesse A. McDonald, Judge. .Statement.' — Plaintiff is a Missouri corporation and maintains an office in the city of St. Louis. Defendants are residents of said city. In 1905, defendant Minnie Hartman owned a tract of vacant ground in block 2355, city of St. Louis, which had a frontage of six hundred and three feet and a few inches on the south line of North Market street, by a depth of two hundred and forty-seven feet to Magazine street, bounded on the east by Leffingwell and on the west by Glasgow avenues. Mrs. Hartman Avanted to sell the piece…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
(after stating the facts). — Defendants rely upon two points for a reversal of the judgment: first, that they had no agreement in writing with plaintiff, appointing it their agent to sell the ground, and invoke the Law of 1903, requiring such contracts to be in writing (Laws of 1903, p. 161). In the case of Rothwell v. Gibson, 121 App. 279, 98 S. W. 801, we had occasion to discuss the Act of 1903, and on the authority of Downing v. Ringer, 7 Mo. 585, and the Missouri cases which have followed it, held that the Act of 1903 made void all verbal contracts with real estate brokers for the sale of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Downing v. RingerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1842
- Rothwell v. GibsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1906
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