Copes v. Williams

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

The plaintiffs-appellants, in August of 1960, purchased a home on Oxford Street in Philadelphia. Later in the same year, appellants, being in need of cash, listed the home for sale in the office of Thomas, a real estate broker, who employed Williams. Eventually, appellants entered into a sales agreement with Mr. and Mrs. Jones and, subsequently, conveyed the property to them by deed.

Appellants refused to surrender possession of the house and a landlord’s distraint was levied against them. Thereupon, appellants filed a complaint in equity seeking, inter alia, to…