Mears v. Biddle

Owning real estate in Bar Harbor which she was wishing to sell, the defendant listed it with the plaintiffs, brokers and agents doing business there, in the hope that they would find a purchaser on prescribed terms, their pay to be in the form of a commission contingent on success. This was previous to the year of 1917.

Toward the end of August, in 1917, as the defendant was leaving Bar Harbor, she and one of the plaintiffs talked over the situation in reference to the property, the other plaintiff averring a knowledge of that fact. At the trial there was a sharp conflict in the testimonies of…