Porizky v. United Fidelity Life Ins. Co.

LOONEY, Justice.

The parties will be referred to as in the court below. Sigmund Porizky, a real estate agent, sued United Fidelity Life Ins. Company, a corporation, for a commission allegedly earned by consummating, between the defendant and Mrs. Ethel Laura Olinger, a contract for the exchange of certain real estate.

Following a general denial defendant alleged, in short, that Mrs. Olinger did not own the quantity of land described in the contract, nor was it free from all encumbrances as stated therein; that in a legal sense, she was neither able nor ready to comply with the contract, and…