Doten v. Chase
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for $253.50, alleged to have been earned by the plaintiff as a real estate broker as a commission for procuring customers to purchase real estate of the defendant. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated October 8, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
At the trial there was evidence to warrant a finding that the plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a broker to find a customer for certain premises; that the plaintiff procured prospective purchasers in.the persons of one Keenan and one Fitzgerald; that on September 3,1919, the plaintiff, the defendant, Keenan and Fitzgerald met at the office of the plaintiff; that a paper in the form of an agreement under seal to buy and sell the premises was made out by the plaintiff and submitted to the parties; that the terms thereof were mutually agreeable; that Keenan and Fitzgerald desired to…
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