Peacock Realty Co. v. E. Thomas Crandall Farm, Inc.

In this civil action the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant the balance due under an alleged agreement wherein defendant agreed to pay a real estate broker’s commission for procuring a purchaser for its real estate. The defendant pleaded in bar that the absence of a sufficient writing evidencing the alleged agreement constituted a defense under the statute of frauds. It also counterclaimed for the $3,000 deposit paid to the plaintiff as the. defendant’s agent by the purchaser upon execution of the sales agreement. The case was tried to a Superior Court justice sitting without a…