Jolton v. Minster Graf & Co.

Appeal by defendants from a judgment in an action for damages for breach of duty and fraudulent conduct in failing diligently and .faithfully to represent plaintiff as his agents in the matter of the sale of property which defendants had been engaged to sell for plaintiff.

The basis of the judgment, as established by the findings, was that defendants actually found a purchaser and made a sale of the property for the owner but intentionally delayed consuminating the sale until an option which plaintiff held to purchase the property had expired, as a result of which conduct plaintiff suffered a…