Mullally v. Greenwood
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Yalliant, Judge. (1) The court misdirected the jury as to the meaning of the term “satisfactory.” Osborne v. Francis, 38 W. Ya. 312; Singerly v. Thayer,- 108 Pa. St. 291; Boiler Works v. Schnaber, 155 Pa.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Yalliant, Judge. (1) The court misdirected the jury as to the meaning of the term “satisfactory.” Osborne v. Francis, 38 W. Ya. 312; Singerly v. Thayer,- 108 Pa. St. 291; Boiler Works v. Schnaber, 155 Pa. St. 394; Zaleski v. Clark, 44 Conn. 218; Brown v. Foster, 113 Mass. 136; Allen v. Company, 14 S. Rep. 362; Tiedeman on Sales, sec. 213. (2) The above quoted part of said first instruction is bad, for the further reason that it assumes as a fact that there was an understanding as to the terms of the proposed lease between plaintiff and…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
On the twentieth of October, 1892, defendants, Moses M. and Moses Greenwood, Jr., were partners, doing a real estate business in the city of St. *141Louis under the name of Greenwood & Company, and on that day they made a proposition, in writing, to plaintiff, that if he would negotiate a satisfactory lease for ninety-nine years on the southwest corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, when the same was duly executed they would pay him for such services the sum of $5,000.
On the day following, plaintiff, having procured a purchaser for the leasehold, went to the office of defendants, so informed…
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