Herbert v. Jaffe

This is an action of contract by a real estate broker for a commission. A verdict for the defendant was directed. The case is reported on the terms that “if the action should have been submitted to the jury, judgment is to be entered for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,500.”

The verdict was directed rightly.

Findings were warranted that the defendant, who owned certain real estate subject to mortgage, offered to pay the plaintiff “a full commission” if he would procure a customer therefor “in trade” or “in cash,” and that the plaintiff produced a person, also owning real estate subject to…