Coney v. Brookline Savings Bank

This is an action of contract brought by a real estate broker to recover a commission on the sale of real estate of the defendant in Boston. The only question arises on the exception of the plaintiff to the action of the judge in directing a verdict for the defendant.

The evidence material to that question was in substance the following. In June, 1945, the plaintiff talked with one Bessey, the treasurer of the defendant, about procuring a purchaser for the real estate in question, the building on which was then an old building “boarded up.” The treasurer told the plaintiff to “go ahead and…