Fredrick v. Squillante

ALLEN, Acting Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by a real estate broker, Harlow G. Fredrick, defendant below, from a final judgment of $1300 entered in favor of plaintiff-appellees on a jury verdict. Recovery was sought on the theory that defendant’s salesman and agent, one T. J. Berkmeyer, negligently overvalued a piece of property which plaintiffs took in trade as part of the purchase price for a piece of property defendant sold for plaintiffs to a third party.

The amended complaint alleged a listing agreement in July, 1955, between plaintiffs and the defendant broker covering 20 acres of…