McLennan v. Cole

This suit was begun in the name of plaintiff McLennan as assignee of Arthur F. Brook-man, a real estate broker in Detroit, to enforce payment by defendant Cole of a claim against him for $10,000, less $250 already paid, as commission alleged to have been earned by Brookman as agent for Cole in the sale of his 140-acre farm located near Mt. Clemens, Michigan. McLennan did not appear at the hearing as a witness and Brookman’s interest in the case being recognized he was impleaded as a plaintiff.

Defendant Cole was a farmer, 78 years old at the time of the hearing, in 1922, had lived near Mt.…