Crowley v. Global Realty, Inc.

In this interlocutory transfer (Sup. Ct. R. 9) from the Superior Court {Bean, J.), we are asked to consider what damages may be recovered in actions arising out of real estate listing and sales agreements and the nature and extent of a real estate broker’s duty to his clients.

The plaintiffs, John K. Crowley and Pauline M. Crowley, own a home in Manchester. The defendant, Global Realty, Inc., is a real estate brokerage corporation. In November 1979, two agents of the defendant, while canvassing the plaintiffs’ neighborhood to solicit potential clients, called upon the plaintiffs. Subsequently,…