Smith v. Koch

The plaintiff brought action in the civil court • of Milwaukee county on an alleged contract between the plaintiff broker and the defendant owner of a “beauty shop” to recover an alleged agreed commission of twelve and a half per cent of the purchase price for selling the shop. The complaint alleged that plaintiff obtained a purchaser to whom the shop was sold for $2,500. The defendant by answer alleges a sale of the shop by the defendant herself for $2,500 to a purchaser whom she had employed the plaintiff to endeavor to make a sale for an agreed commission of twelve and a half per cent if…