Helberg v. Nichol
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—• heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. The facts shown by this record are, substantially, that about October 1, 1890, the appellant employed the defendant Ryder, of Nichol & Ryder, real estate agents, to sell the real estate in question, and authorized a sale for $375 per acre.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—• heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. The facts shown by this record are, substantially, that about October 1, 1890, the appellant employed the defendant Ryder, of Nichol & Ryder, real estate agents, to sell the real estate in question, and authorized a sale for $375 per acre. Ryder answered an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune, November 9, 1890, and on November 10, as a result, had an interview ■with Hartman & Carey, also real estate agents. The defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
From the evidence appearing on this record, the appellant, who owned seventy-four acres of land near the city of Chicago, authorized one Ryder, of the firm of Niehol & Ryder, to sell the same at $275 per acre, for which he was to pay a com‘mission of two and one-half per cent. The land was encumbered by a mortgage to secure an indebtedness of $11,100, which had some time yet to run. Hartman, of the firm of Hartman & Carey, real estate agents of the city of Chicago, was, as he testifies, authorized to purchase property for different persons, among others one T. S. Kintz and one W. C.…
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