Perles & Stone, Inc. v. Childs Co.

This is an action brought to recover the reasonable value of services alleged to have been rendered by Perles Stone, a partnership, in procuring for defendant the leasing of certain real estate. Upon trial to a jury there was a verdict for defendant. The circuit court sustained plaintiff's motion for new trial on two grounds therein assigned, viz., that the verdict was against the greater weight of the evidence and that the court had erred in admitting, over plaintiff's objections, "improper, immaterial, irrelevant and incompetent evidence" offered by defendant. Defendant appealed.

Defendant…