Barker v. Jung

His Honor, CHARLES F. CLAIBORNE,

rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:

The plaintiff in this case claims a commission -as broker for the sale of real estate.

He alleged that the defendant, Peter Jung, was the owner of several lots of ground in the vicinity of Carrollton Avenue; that Jung employed L. Emile Freret verbally as his sales manager to sell said lots, giving him authority to engage sub-agents to.effect said sales; that Freret made a verbal contract with petitioner, by which Freret was to give him five per cent on any sales of property effected by him; that petitioner…