London v. Singer

Plaintiff sues to recover a real estate broker’s commission of $2,500 and $750 deposited under an arbitration agreement. Through a sale by the plaintiff, as broker, the defendant became the owner of an apartment building at the corner of Bethune and Merrill streets in the city of Detroit. He desired to re-sell the property and the plaintiff claims that he was employed to secure a purchaser under an oral agreement whereby he was to receive for his commission one-half of all the property brought above $50,000, which was the purchase price paid by the defendant; that he secured a purchaser…