O'Donnell v. Breck
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 25, Jan. T., 1898, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., May T., 1895, No. 70, on verdict for plaintiff. Before Rice, P. J., Wickham, Assumpsit. Before Searle, P. J., of tbe 34th judicial district, specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 25, Jan. T., 1898, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., May T., 1895, No. 70, on verdict for plaintiff. Before Rice, P. J., Wickham, Assumpsit. Before Searle, P. J., of tbe 34th judicial district, specially presiding. It appears from tbe evidence that tbe plaintiff in tbis case bad some conversation with the defendant, an attorney at law, in reference to the purchase of a piece of real estate in which she indicated tbe price she was willing to pay therefor as $16,000. Defendant immediately secured an option on tbe premises at $14,500, and made an agreement to sell…
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Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The facts in this case were so seriously controverted that the learned trial judge properly submitted them to a jury, who adopted the plaintiff’s contention and returned a verdict in her favor.
The plaintiff alleged that she paid the money to the defendant as her attorney, to be by him applied as a purchase money payment on certain real estate which she desired to purchase. This the defendant denied, and insisted that he was not representing her as an attorney in any sense, and that the transaction was only that of a broker negotiating a sale of real estate.
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