Libretto v. Serifini
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for services as a real-estate broker in procuring a purchaser of the defendant’s property, brought to and tried, by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Smith, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $725, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover for services as a real-estate broker in procuring a purchaser of the defendant’s property, brought to and tried, by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Smith, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $725, and appeal by the defendant. The complaint, seeking recovery of the reasonable worth of services rendered, alleges that the plaintiff, a real-estate broker, was employed by the defendant at a reasonable compensation to procure a purchaser of a saloon business owned and conducted by the latter, and that the plaintiff did procure such purchaser,…
1Per curiam
It is not denied on the defendant’s behalf that upon the facts found the plaintiff is entitled to recover from him the amount for which judgment was rendered against him. The only error assigned in the reasons of appeal is the failure of the court to hold that the action was prematurely brought and to dismiss it for that cause. That assignment of error, purely technical and unrelated to the substantial rights of the parties, is sufficiently met by the statement that it is not one which our rules of practice entitle him to pursue, since he did not plead nonmaturity of the cause of action…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Southey v. DowlingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
3Cited by2 opinions
- Raymond v. BaileySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
- Sheketoff v. PrevedineSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1947