Brown v. Miller

The plaintiff, William B. Brown, d/b/a Brown Realty, Inc., brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County for payment of a brokerage commission for the sale of a parcel of real estate located in Oak Park, Illinois, belonging to the defendant, Edwin B. Miller. The trial court found that construing the language of the contract as a whole and taking the plain meaning of the words, the agreement was an “exclusive right to sell” contract in which case even though defendant-owner sells the property without the assistance of plaintiff-broker, plaintiff is entitled to a commission. Judgment…