Chiagouris v. Continental Trailways

The defendants appeal from a judgment entered by the Superior Court in a nonjury trial awarding plaintiff, a licensed real-estate broker, a commission in the amount of $11,760 and costs, in an action to recover for services in procuring a tenant on a fourteen-year sublease. It is defendants’ theory that as a matter of law the plaintiff had no contract of employment nor was he the procuring agent of the sublease.

Before proceeding to an account of the evidence it would be well to consider the tests laid down by previous decisions with regard to what constitutes a contract of employment. It is…