Jennings v. Rooney
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for services in selling a certain mill privilege. Writ dated April 13, 1899. At the trial in the Superior Court before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $460; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
In this case the plaintiff, a real estate broker, seeks to recover a commission as compensation for his services in selling for the defendant the “ Union Mill Privilege in Walpole.”
The evidence for the plaintiff tended to show that the privilege was held under a lease by the “ Windmill Light and Power Company,” and all negotiations with the defendant and the officers of the company were conducted and a purchaser found and sale made by Thomas B. Podbury, who was in the employment of and represented the plaintiff.
The defendant denied that he had requested or authorized Podbury to find a…
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