Porter v. Day

The appellants are licensed real estate brokers doing business in Chicago, and were such in 1890. It appears that appellee was paying teller in the bank where appellants kept an account, and that he and William P. Porter, one of the appellants, had frequent conversations at the bank concerning the selling of certain Wabash avenne property. It is a matter of dispute between the parties whether the appellee at any time named a specific sum at which appellants might offer the property for sale. He testifies that he might possibly have said to appellants that “a price would take it,” but denies…