Applebaum v. Witbeck

The plaintiffs have judgment for $1,000 representing their claims for commissions as brokers on the sale of certain realestate owned by the defendant.

*298The issues were submitted to the jury on a rather novel and unusual theory, to wit, that the contract was that the plaintiffs were to produce a purchaser; and that having produced one to whom a sale was eventually made, it did not matter whether or not the plaintiffs were the procuring cause of the sale. ■

As a matter of fact, the person who eventually purchased the property was a tenant of the defendant. There were negotiations between the…