Elder v. Baker

This appeal comes to this court on questions of law from a judgment entered for the defendant in the Euclid Municipal Court, the case having been tried to the court without the intervention of a jury. The action is one seeking a commission (the plaintiff being a licensed real estate broker) for procuring a purchaser for a house and lot said to be the property of the defendant, located at 1033 Galewood Drive, Cleveland, Ohio. The plaintiff was employed by verbal contract over the telephone to find a purchaser for the premises at a price in the neighborhood of $12,500.

The plaintiff, in seeking…