Hambleton v. Fort

Irvine, C.

Fort sued nambleton to recover $125 as commissions earned as real estate broker in procuring a purchaser for land owned by Hambleton in Lincoln county. He recovered judgment for $96, and tbe defendant bas brought the case to this court by proceedings in error. The first question raised, and tbe principal one in tbe case, is tbe sufficiency of tbe evidence. Tbe contract as alleged was to find a purchaser or sell the land, but there is no proof *283of authority' to mate a sale, and it is clear that plaintiff did not himself effect the sale, so the question is, did he perform such services…