Brennan v. Roach
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Gity Circuit Court.— Hon. Daniel Dillon, Judge. (1) Commissions are not due until tbe work is complete. McGarvan v. Woodlief20 How. 221 ; Welker v. Tirrell, 101 Mass. 257 ; Bernstein v. Laus, 104Mass. 214; Newhallv. Pierce, 115Mass. 657; Trundy v. Steel Co., 6 Rob.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Gity Circuit Court.— Hon. Daniel Dillon, Judge. (1) Commissions are not due until tbe work is complete. McGarvan v. Woodlief20 How. 221 ; Welker v. Tirrell, 101 Mass. 257 ; Bernstein v. Laus, 104Mass. 214; Newhallv. Pierce, 115Mass. 657; Trundy v. Steel Co., 6 Rob. (N. Y.) 212. (2) Where several brokers are employed to effect a sale of property, real or personal, the one who succeeds in making the negotiations is entitled to the commissions (Glenn v. Davidson, 39 Md. 365); where two close negotiations, the one who first closes the same. Glenn v. Davidson, 39 Md. 365.…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This action was commenced before a justice of the peace to recover an amount claimed to be due the plaintiff from the defendant for services rendered by the plaintiff as a real-estate agent in procuring a purchaser for a house of the defendant, which he had put into the plaintiff’s hands for sale. The defendant denied that the plaintiff had procured a purchaser for the house ; but, on the contrary, alleged that • another firm of real-estate agents, Charles EL Gleason 6 Co., had procured such purchaser, and that the defendant had paid to them the usual commissions, to-wit, two and one half per…
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