Waterman Real Estate Exchange v. Stephens

Plaintiff, a business corporation, acting as a real-estate broker, sued Henry Stephens for com*105missions on the sale of his property on Woodward avenue, Detroit. Pending the suit, he died, and his personal representative appeared and defended. On the trial the circuit court for Wayne county shut out all the testimony ■offered, and ordered judgment for defendant, and from the record we are somewhat in doubt how far the rulings were based on any supposed disability of the witnesses, and how far on something else. One objection made to .proof by officers of the company was that the matters were…