Pyles v. Cole

This is a suit to collect a commission of five per cent alleged to be due for the sale of a farm belonging to the defendants Pyles and wife. The case originated before a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland County where judgment was rendered for the plaintiff and, on appeal, the Circuit Judge, sitting without a jury, rendered a judgment for $75.

*603By their appeal defendants Pyles and wife have renewed here their insistence: (1) that the listing contract had expired before negotiations with the purchaser began; (2) the plaintiff breached the listing contract by attempting to sell the property for…