Largent v. Ritchey

Ross Largent, a real-estate broker doing business as Largent Realty Company, sues for a commission. The defense is that the agreement for a commission was not sufficiently definite as to the amount thereof to support a judgment, and that, in any event, the agreement was rescinded by mutual consent. The principal question involved, aside from the asserted ambiguity with reference to the amount of the commission, is whether a salesman for the real-estate broker had apparent authority to rescind an agreement for a commission that had been earned.

The defendants, Mr. and Mrs. Rex H. Ritchey…