Laneville v. Yoken

This is an action of contract (originally filed with the Bristol County Superior Court and remanded to the District Court for trial) in which the plaintiff, a licensed real estate broker, seeks to recover a commission in the amount of $1,000.00 alleged to be due for obtaining a customer for the defendants’ real estate pursuant to an oral agreement with the defendants.

The answer is a general denial with special defenses as follows:

1. If the defendants authorized the plaintiff to sell the real estate, the authorization was revoked in good faith by the defendants before the plaintiff complied…