Collopy v. Stevenson

*704The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to recover a real-estate dealer’s commission of $200. Judgment on the pleadings and on defendant’s opening statement was entered in plaintiff’s behalf, and defendant appeals.

The defendant, George T. Stevenson, of Turón, Kan., owned a farm near Cayuga, N. Y., which he desired to sell, and to that end he employed the plaintiff, .John Collopy, a Reno county real-estate dealer, to find a buyer. Collopy got in touch with one Eber T. McDonald, of Cayuga, N. Y., and induced McDonald and Stevenson to enter into a written contract…