Easter v. Newbury

On October 25, 1909, after some negotiations conducted through the agency of defendant in error, who is a licensed real estate broker doing business under the name of F. B. Easter & Co., a written contract was entered into between plaintiff in error and one Anna Wakerli, by which plaintiff in error agreed to purchase of her certain real estate in Chicago at an agreed price of $8000 to be paid as follows: $1500 in cash, $5500 by the assumption of an existing mortgage upon the property, and the remainder, $1000, by conveying to her two lots in Chicago. The contract was in the usual form of a…