Snedker v. Baltimore Brick Co.

This appeal is from a judgment for the appellee for costs, in an action to recover broker’s commissions of $2,057.11, tried by the court without a jury. The appellant poses two questions, whether he was the procuring cause of the sales in question, and whether his authority and agency had terminated prior to the sales.

There is little dispute as to the facts. The Baltimore Brick Company, in the course of its manufacturing operations, had acquired numerous parcels of “worked out” land which it was holding for sale, either directly or through brokers, but at no time under exclusive listing…