Christensen v. Wooley

This is an action to recover the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars, which the plaintiff alleged had been received by the defendants as his agents, and they had refused to pay to him on demand. The defendants denied the indebtedness, and averred that they were real-estate agents, and that the money retained by them was the amount of their commissions on a sale of plaintiff’s property to one O. R. Symmes; that they had been employed by the plaintiff to sell certain real estate, and that, through their efforts, a valid contract for the sale thereof,- upon the terms agreed on, was made…