Goss v. Hill

The plaintiffs below filed an action at law, wherein they requested a declaration of rights concerning a $500 deposit which had been made on a real estate sales agreement and was supposedly held by the defendant as the broker involved in the transaction. The defendant, the real estate broker, answered to the effect that she had returned the $500 deposit to the prospective purchaser under the sales agreement, and she filed a counter-claim against the plaintiffs, the sellers, for her broker’s commission. The trial court held that he could not grant the declaratory relief requested, and that the…