Haney v. Beaton

The defendant, who was engaged in the business of raising, harvesting and marketing cranberries and interested in acquiring cranberry bogs, employed the plaintiff, a dealer in real estate, on May 7, 1937, to procure for him the cranberry bog property owned by Ware Brothers at a price satisfactory to him. He was to pay her the usual commission. The defendant had been familiar with the property since 1930, and had endeavored since 1936, through a firm of brokers, to secure it but his efforts had been unsuccessful. Within a few days after her employment began, the plaintiff secured a written…