Stearns v. Hochbrunn

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fullerton, J.

The respondent, who was plaintiff below, brought this action against the appellant to recover the sum of nine thousand dollars, with interest, which she avers the defendant fraudulently converted to his own use. In her complaint the respondent alleges that during the year 1889 she was the owner of certain real property sit*209uate in the city of Seattle, and that she employed the appellant,, who was a real estate broker doing business in that city, to procure a purchaser of the property for the highest price obtainable, agreeing to pay him a…