McLaughlin v. Campbell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vredenburgh, J.

The plaintiff below (a real estate broker), in a suit brought by him to recover brokerage commissions, declared upon, and, at the trial, produced and proved in support of his declaration, a written agreement and authority, dated November 11th, 1903, signed by the defendant, authorizing the fornler, as his agent, to offer for sale or exchange several lots of land in Jersey City, N. J., and thereby agreed to pay him, in case of their sale, two and one-half per centum commission on a purchase-price of $45,000. The defendant, by the express…