Fallin v. Roe

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellees, Mr. and Mrs. Roe, were the owners of certain real estate in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and desiring to sell, engaged appellant Fallin, a real estate broker, to find a purchaser. Thereafter Fallin reported to them that he had a purchaser, one Ernest, who would pay $9,950, but later he reported that the sale to Ernest had fallen through. He then presented to them an offer of one J. M. Powers to buy for $7,700. They accepted this offer and shortly after consummation of sale .to Powers learned that Powers, who was in fact Fallin’s wife, had acted merely as…