Hutchinson v. Dobson-Bainbridge Realty Co.

This is a suit by a real estate broker to recover a commission claimed to be due by the terms of a written contract with defendant. In the General Sessions Court plaintiff obtained a judgment. Likewise, in the Circuit Court there was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff for the amount of its claim, $247.50. Defendant appealed in error to this Court.

In April 1944, plaintiff’s employee, E. S. Morgan, sold defendant and wife a bouse located on Be.lle Forrest Avenue, in Nashville. During that negotiation defendant said he wished to sell their house located on Seventeenth Avenue, then occupied by…