Spritz v. Brockton Savings Bank

This is an action of contract by a broker to recover a commission. The plaintiff signed an instrument reciting that he was making an effort to sell the defendant’s property without any expectation or understanding “that . . . [the plaintiff] should be entitled to any commission or compensation in any form for such efforts unless said Bank shall sell said property and then only, if, as and when all papers consummating such sale shall actually be passed, the deed delivered, the mortgage and note signed and delivered, and the entire deal consummated to the satisfaction of said Bank,” when he was…