Sheedy v. Stall

The issue is whether evidence was properly excluded because it was hearsay.

Plaintiff is a real estate broker and this action is to recover a commission. Pursuant to an oral agreement with the defendants he offered defendants’ ranch for sale. ① Plaintiff secured the signatures of Mr. Ma-tuna, as purchaser, and the defendants, as sellers, to an earnest money agreement dated and executed December 21,1966. The agreement provided: “This earnest money receipt is subject to the buyer’s approval of the new road alignment through See. 7, and to the buyer’s attorney approving this earnest money receipt…