Kenny v. DiCenso

The plaintiffs, who seek to recover a broker’s commission in connection with the sale of the defendants’ real estate, claim to be aggrieved by the direction of verdicts for the defendants. It was error to direct the verdicts.

We apply the settled rule that a verdict should not be directed if “anywhere in the evidence, from whatever source derived, any combination of *836circumstances could be found from which a reasonable inference could be drawn in favor of the plaintiff.” Raunela v. Hertz Corp., 361 Mass. 341, 343 (1972). There was evidence that the plaintiffs’ production of the buyer, as a…