Kernaghan & Cordill v. Uthoff

HIGGINS, Judge.

Plaintiffs, real estate brokers, sued the defendant as the owner of certain property in Vincennes place, this city, for damages, for the breach of a verbal contract said to have been entered into between the parties, under which the plaintiffs were given the exclusive agency to sell certain lots belonging to the defendant in the subdivision; and, in the alternative, to recover on a quantum meruit the value of the services rendered by plaintiffs in behalf of the defendant and accepted by him.

The defendant denied liability on both grounds. Judgment was rendered in favor of the…