Valois v. Pelletier

This is an action of the case in assumpsit to recover a real estate broker’s commission. The case is here on the defendant’s exception to the decision of a justice of the superior court in favor of the plaintiff.

The plaintiff, a real estate broker, had an agency agreement with defendant, a contractor and builder, to sell certain houses on a commission of five per cent of the purchase price of each house. Pursuant to said agreement he advertised the houses for sale and sold one of them. He collected the stipulated commission at the time the sale was consummated by the delivery of the deed and…