Gibler v. Hickok

Defendants owned a farm in Hillsdale county which they desired to exchange for city prop erty. They so wrote plaintiff. A personal interview followed, in which plaintiff’s agent, Mr. Gardner, called their attention to a city property owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ellison. The defendants looked over this property and Gardner soon after took the Ellisons to defendants’ farm. Terms of exchange were agreed upon. Gardner then prepared a written instrument, using a listing form therefor. In it defendants appointed plaintiff “exclusive agent to make sale” of defendants’ property and agreed to exchange it…