Reeves v. Vette

The petition states that defendant employed one Berkley to sell for him a parcel of real estate, and agreed to pay him a commission of $1,000 for so doing; that Berkley sold the property; that defendant became on account of such sale indebted to him in the sum of $1,000, and that Berkley assigned this claim to the plaintiff, who now sues. The answer is a general denial. On a trial before the court without a jury the plaintiff recovered judgment for the full amount of his claim. The defendant now assigns for error that there was an entire failure of proof of plaintiff ’s cause of action, and…