Martien v. Mayor of Baltimore

The declaration in this case charges that on or about the llth of May, 1906, the defendant, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, through its agent, the Sewerage Commission of Baltimore, entered into a contract with the plaintiffs, “whereby the plaintiffs, who are real estate brokers, were employed to negotiate the purchases of certain lands lying near Back River, in Baltimore County, Maryland, and the plaintiffs were to receive from the defendant a commission of one and one-quarter per cent, of the aggregate amount of the defendant’s purchases of the said land; less whatever the…