Maher v. Roisner

Loking, Chief Justice.

This is an action to recover a real estate commission alleged to be due plaintiff as the result of his having produced a buyer who was ready, willing, and able to purchase certain property. A verdict was returned for plaintiff. This appeal is from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

During his closing argument defendant’s attorney argued that, although plaintiff claimed to have advertised the property, he had not produced any evidence that the property had been advertised in the newspapers in spite of the fact that such evidence would have been readily…