Jordan v. Hilbert

Action to recover a commission upon the sale of the defendant’s farm. The suit was entered in the Superior Court and referred by rule of court with right of exception to decisions of law reserved. The Referee found for the plaintiff and so reported. The defendant filed written objections and brings forward his exception to the acceptance of the report.

The evidence taken out before the Referee and made a part of the bill of exceptions tends to prove that the defendant, the proprietor of the Johnson House, a hotel in Gardiner, Maine, sometime in October, 1929, requested the plaintiff, then…