Fine v. Hoffman

This is an action in assumpsit to recover a broker’s commission for the sale of certain real estate. It was tried before a justice of the superior court sitting without a jury and resulted in a decision for the defendant. The case is before us on the plaintiff’s bill of exceptions to such decision and to certain evidentiary rulings. However, since only the exception to the decision has been briefed and argued, the other exceptions are deemed to be waived.

It appears from the evidence that plaintiff, a Cranston realtor, was authorized orally but not exclusively to procure a purchaser of…