Morrison v. Hall
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, for services in selling real estate. Trial by jury and verdict for tbe plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1911, of tbe superior court by Wallace, C. J., on tbe defendant’s exception to tbe denial of bis motion for a directed verdict. Tbe facts .are stated in tbe opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
Tbe simple question presented is whether the plaintiff’s evidence was sufficient to authorize tbe jury in returning a verdict in bis favor. He sought to recover tbe sum of $150 under a contract by which, it is claimed, tbe defendant employed him to sell a woodlot which tbe defendant himself afterward sold. Tbe evidence tended to show the following facts: Some time in February, 1908, tbe plaintiff, who was a real estate agent, bad a conversation with the defendant in regard to tbe sale of bis lot, and as a result subsequently, on the 18th day of that month, submitted to him a proposition in…
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