Morton v. Barney
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Freeman
It is urged in behalf of appellant that appellees failed to prove their employment as brokers; that in any event the judgment is erroneous because based not on the value of the north half of the dock strip, but on the price for which appellee Barney offered it to Kelley, Maus & Co.; that appellees were not the procuring cause of the lease to Kelley, Maus & Co.; that said lease was made by appellant through his own real estate agents, Dunlap Smith & Co., and not through appellees or any of them, and that certain instructions were erroneous.
As to the first of these contentions, that appellees…
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