Libby v. Ivers & Pond Piano Co.

The plaintiff got a verdict upon a count for a real estate broker’s commission in procuring a lease made on February 26, 1941, of part of the defendant’s real estate in Cambridge for five years to Paramount Coat Company, a partnership composed of Louis Freedman and Max Cohen. The only exception is to the denial of the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict in its favor.

The evidence in favor of the plaintiff may be summarized as follows. One Pond was the “actual, active and dominating head” of the defendant corporation, but one Elms, his assistant, was empowered to attend to all details of…