Detoro v. Cannata

The trial court has found, upon conflicting evidence and therefore conclusively, that the plaintiff, a real-estate broker, asked the defendant if a certain property he owned was for sale and if he, the plaintiff, might handle it. The defendant assented and gave him the price to be asked. The plaintiff then told the defendant that he had in mind a possible customer, naming him. The plaintiff had previously shown the customer other properties and knew he was in the market for a property similar to that of the defendant. Two or three days after his talk with the defendant the plaintiff offered…