Burns v. Whitford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a real-estate broker to recover a commission or compensation for his services in effecting an exchange of properties, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before Woodruff, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $535, and appeal by the defendant. Error and new trial ordered.
1Opinion of the CourtCurtis, J.
The undisputed facts show the following situation; The defendant, Whitford, in 1915 was conducting a general hardware business in Canaan, which was called The Whitford Supply Company; the business was that of a corporation of which the defendant was the principal stockholder, and the defendant stood in such relation to the corporation that he could dispose of the entire business by sale or exchange, and complete the transaction by the transfer of all the stock of the corporation with all the rights in the business incident thereto. The defendant put this business in the plaintiff’s hands as a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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