Meyer v. Hanchett
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL ñ-om tbe County Court of Milwaukee County. Action to recover a commission upon a sale of real estate, claimed by plaintiffs to Rave been effected by them as brokers nnder employment for the defendant.
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APPEAL ñ-om tbe County Court of Milwaukee County. Action to recover a commission upon a sale of real estate, claimed by plaintiffs to Rave been effected by them as brokers nnder employment for the defendant. The answfer denied the employment, and alleged that if the court should hold that the correspondence of the parties did constitute a contract, then plaintiffs’ services were of no value to defendant; that they made false and fraudulent representations as to the value of certain property taken by him in exchange for his own property, upon which rejnesentations he relied in making such…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The counsel for the plaintiffs admitted on the trial that, prior to and at the time of the exchange of the defendant’s farm for the Oak Creek property, the plaintiffs had a contract with Hobart, by which they were to assist him in selling his property at Oak Greek for a compensation. Thereupon the defendant offered to prove by Meyer, one of the plaintiffs, that the plaintiffs did not notify the defendant that, in negotiating or assisting in negotiating this exchange, they were to ask for or strive to recover compensation from both him and Hobart, and that in pursuance of the agreement ■with…
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- Stewart v. MatherWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
- Raisin v. ClarkCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1874
- Walker v. OsgoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Bollman v. LoomisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
- Lloyd v. Colston & MooreCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1869
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- DeSteiger v. HollingtonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1885
- Barry v. SchmidtWisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
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- Orton v. ScofieldWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
- Green v. Southern States Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1909
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