Burdett v. Peters

This case comes to the Law Court on defendant’s general motion for new trial, after a verdict for the plaintiff for $400 as commission on sale of real estate. There are no exceptions.

The facts that the jury would be authorized to find from the evidence, and undoubtedly did find, are that:— In August 1946 the defendant orally placed for sale in the hands of the plaintiff, as a real estate broker, a certain apartment house in Portland at a selling price of $8,500 net. There was no limit of time in which to sell. The plaintiff immediately advertised the property at $8,900, and the plaintiff…