Teesdale v. Bennett
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant -county: Geo. ClbmeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff was a real-estate dealer, doing business in tbe city of Lancaster, Wisconsin. Defendant was tbe owner of •certain hotel property known as tbe “Lancaster House.” May 9, 1903, be entered into negotiations with plaintiff with a view to disposing of tbe hotel.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant -county: Geo. ClbmeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff was a real-estate dealer, doing business in tbe city of Lancaster, Wisconsin. Defendant was tbe owner of •certain hotel property known as tbe “Lancaster House.” May 9, 1903, be entered into negotiations with plaintiff with a view to disposing of tbe hotel. Plaintiff bad various conversations with him, and claims to have made an agreement with him to tbe effect that defendant was to pay him $500 for securing a customer for a sale, or for an exchange of this property for other property,…
1Opinion of the Court
SiebboKeb,. J.
Plaintiff, as a real-estate agent, sued defendant for commissions which he claims are due him upon *358tbe contract made at tbe time and under tbe circumstances, stated in tbe foregoing statement of facts, whereby be undertook to procure a customer for tbe purchase or exchange of defendant’s hotel property in tbe city of Lancaster. He avers-that he has fully performed all the conditions of this agreement, and that the sum agreed upon as a commission for such services is due him. Tbe defendant asserts that tbe terms of tbe agreement were that plaintiff should receive the commission…
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