Pohl v. Mercurio

This is an action for real estate broker’s commission and for reasonable value of services rendered.

Defendants, as partners, owned certain real property in the city of San Diego, upon which a business was conducted known as Van’s Market. On March 13, 1946, defendants by letter gave plaintiff, a real estate broker, an exclusive listing to sell the property for a net price of $50,000. It was provided in the letter that the listing would be automatically cancelled unless plaintiff had a ‘ ‘ deal in Escrow or one pending satisfactory to the writer as of March 28th, 1946.” There was a further…