Frischkorn Real Estate Co. v. Hoskins

This action is brought to recover damages growing out of the failure of the defendant to carry out an agreement for the exchange of real estate. The damage claimed is the loss of a broker’s commission. The plaintiff is a Michigan corporation engaged in the real estate business in the city of Detroit. The defendant is president of the Hoskins Investment Company of Pontiac, Michigan, and is also engaged in the business of buying and selling real estate. Together with other members of his company he owned land in the vicinity of Pontiac, known as the Newton farm, on which there was a mortgage of…