Woods v. Matthews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against Nathan Matthews and George E. Howe, trustees, to recover the sum of $6,581.52 alleged to be due to the plaintiff for services rendered to the defendants by the plaintiff as a real estate broker in procuring a person ready and willing to become a tenant of the Hotel Oxford in Boston under a twenty year lease on certain specified terms, who was accepted by the defendants as such tenant.
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Contract against Nathan Matthews and George E. Howe, trustees, to recover the sum of $6,581.52 alleged to be due to the plaintiff for services rendered to the defendants by the plaintiff as a real estate broker in procuring a person ready and willing to become a tenant of the Hotel Oxford in Boston under a twenty year lease on certain specified terms, who was accepted by the defendants as such tenant. Writ dated December 4, 1912. The declaration originally contained two counts. Afterwards a third count was added by amendment, which was as follows: “Count 3. The plaintiff says that he is a…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
Under the third count, the only one finally submitted to the jury, the plaintiff declared and the jury expressly found that he (the plaintiff) was employed by the defendants to procure a tenant for the Hotel Oxford.
It was admitted that the plaintiff under his employment introduced to the defendant Matthews one Hurlburt, a person who had in mind the leasing of the Hotel Oxford; that the defendants and Hurlburt discussed the terms of a possible lease; that they agreed as to “the principal points;” that Hurlburt withdrew from the negotiations before there was a final determination of all the…
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