Lawrence v. Pederson
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for King county, Bell, J., entered January 13, 1903, setting aside .a nonsuit entered May 15, 1902, and granting a new trial, with leave to file a supplemental complaint, upon plaintiffs showing by affidavits of events occurring since the nonsuit was granted.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
Respondent brought this action to recover from appellant the sum of $2,325, alleged to he due and owing to respondent as a commission for effecting a sale of certain mining property in Alaska for appellant. The cause was tried before a jury, and at the close of the plaintiffs testimony the defendant moved for a nonsuit. The motion was granted and the jury discharged. The consideration which induced the court to grant the nonsuit appears to have been its construction of the written instru*3ment pertaining to the sale of the mining property. That written instrument is as follows:
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