Bailie v. Ridker

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Plaintiffs, A. E. (Ned) Bailie and John D. Miller, real estate agents, obtained a verdict against the defendant, Israel Ridker, in the sum of $7,500 as commission due upon their performance of an oral agreement of employment entered into with defendant March 8, 1953, under which they were to find a buyer for defendant’s commercial property, located at Lowry and Penn Avenue North in Minneapolis, at a price and upon terms specified by defendant.

At the trial two special interrogatories submitted to the jury were answered as follows:

“1. Did * * * defendant * * * reach a…