Bennett v. Denton

The defendant listed his farm for sale in plaintiffs real estate agency at Sault Ste. Marie in the summer of 1918. Subsequently plaintiff found him -a buyer who purchased the farm. It was the claim of plaintiff that he was entitled to an agreed commission thereon of $600. The case was called in the circuit court, and the trial, proceeded upon the expectation by defendant’s counsel that defendant, who was absent from the city, would return in season to testify in his own behalf. He failed to return before the testimony was concluded, and the trial court directed a verdict for the plaintiff for…