Contant v. Wallace

This cause was tried, the appeal was perfected, and the briefs on appeal were filed in the lifetime of Jacob Sholley, the original defendant. The suggestion of his death and the substitution of his executor in his stead were made in this court.

Plaintiff, a real estate broker, brought the action for the purpose of recovering a broker’s commission. The complaint alleges that Sholley employed her as his agent to sell a certain parcel of real property, that she found a purchaser and that Sholley “accepted the proposal of the purchaser so secured . . . and entered into a written agreement of…