Coffin v. Grace
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for a commission alleged to be due to the plaintiffs, real estate brokers doing business under the firm name of Coffin and Taber, for procuring for the defendant a lease to the Henry H. Tuttle Company of certain premises on Tremont Street in Boston. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk dated March 7, 1906. There was a trial before Schofield, J., without a jury.
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Contract for a commission alleged to be due to the plaintiffs, real estate brokers doing business under the firm name of Coffin and Taber, for procuring for the defendant a lease to the Henry H. Tuttle Company of certain premises on Tremont Street in Boston. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk dated March 7, 1906. There was a trial before Schofield, J., without a jury. The evidence as to a custom, referred to in the fourth paragraph of the opinion, was to the effect that, in cases where a lease was negotiated and a broker was entitled to a commission, but there had been no…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
This case is before us upon exceptions taken by the defendant. It was tried by a judge sitting without a jury. The judge found (1) that the plaintiffs were employed by the defendant as brokers to procure a lessee for the premises, (2) that at the time the plaintiffs were so employed the premises were occupied by one Cook under a lease from the defendant, (3) that Cook was not a strong tenant financially as the defendant knew, (4) that the terms of a lease from Cook to the Henry H. Tuttle Company, a lessee procured by the plaintiffs, were agreed upon, (5) that Cook died on January 26,1906,…
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