McAuslan & Nutting, Inc. v. Futurity Thread Co.

The question to be decided is, whether the trial court was right in sustaining a demurrer to the declaration and ordering judgment for the defendants.

Upon the allegations in the declaration, the plaintiff, a corporation engaged in the real estate business, was employed by the owner to procure a purchaser for certain property in Newton. The attention of the defendant Rae was directed to the property by one of the plaintiff’s representatives, who proceeded in the usual way to induce him to purchase it, with the result that Rae was willing to pay $15,500, a price acceptable to the owner. Had the…