Flax v. Sovrensky

This is an action to recover a broker’s commission in procuring a customer for the purchase of the defendant’s real estate. There was a verdict for the plaintiff.

The plaintiff contended that the defendant requested him to procure a customer; that he found a customer ready, able and willing to buy, whom he introduced to the defendant; that the terms of sale were agreed to and the defendant refused to go on with the bargain.

The plaintiff testified that the defendant placed the property in his hands to secure a customer at the price of $35,000; that there was a mortgage on the property for…