Dethloff v. Starbuck

This is an action to enforce payment of a commission of $340 due for services rendered in effecting a sale of real estate. The broker secured a judgment in the trial court for the full amount claimed; the Court of Appeals on error affirmed this judgment.

The plaintiff in error, the owner of the real estate, herein referred to as owner, employed by verbal contract the defendant in error, herein referred to as broker, to sell the real estate in question. The price fixed was $9,000 net to the owner, the broker to get his commission, the amount of the commission not then being definitely fixed,…