Fogg v. McAdam

Action to recover a broker’s commission for negotiating an exchange of real estate.

The sole question involved is the ruling of the court in sustaining a general demurrer to the complaint. Upon the making of the order and plaintiff’s declining to amend, judgment was entered for defendant, from which plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

The complaint alleges that on May 11, 1911, defendant in writing authorized Merrill & Fogg, plaintiff’s assignors, to negotiate an exchange of certain real estate then owned by him for certain ranch property, consisting of four hundred and eighty acres, owned by one…