Staab v. Messier

This is an action by the plaintiff to recover a real estate commission from the defendant. John J. Staab, the plaintiff, a real estate broker of the City of Montpelier, seeks to recover a commission from Joseph Messier, the defendant, on the grounds that he produced a buyer, ready, willing and able to purchase the property of the defendant, located in the Town of Berlin. Trial was had by jury in the Vermont District Court, Unit 5, Washington Circuit. The motion of the defendant for a verdict directed in his favor, made at the close of the evidence in the case, was denied by the trial court…