DePasquale v. App

The plaintiff, a real estate broker, sues for a ten percent commission on the sale of the defendant’s commercial building and land in Wilmington to one Lepore. Lepore had previously bought the defendant’s sanitation business and had been given a one-year “option,” which was in effect a right of first refusal, to purchase the property at market value. A month or two after the sale of the business, Lepore told the defendant that he thought he would not be in a financial position to purchase the property, so the defendant put the property on the market through the plaintiff. The plaintiff found…