Lynch v. Fallon

This is an action of assumpsit to recover $2,500 for commissions for the plaintiff’s services as a broker in negotiating an exchange of real estate. The two estates exchanged were a hotel estate, belonging to the defendant, situated in Worcester, and valued by the defendant at $125,000, on one side, and a tract of land belonging to the West Elmwood Land Company, situated in Providence, on the other side. There was, subject to mortgages, an even exchange. The plaintiff claims that the defendant made him an express promise to pay him the regular commissions before the exchange, and after the…