Cremer v. Miller
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by Mablon D. Miller, one of the defendants, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, James J.Egan, J., made June 21,1893, denying his motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, Mary A. Cremer, was doing business in St. Paul as a real estate broker under the name of Cremer & Co. Her husband, W. J. Cremer, as agent for her, managed the business.
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Appeal by Mablon D. Miller, one of the defendants, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, James J.Egan, J., made June 21,1893, denying his motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, Mary A. Cremer, was doing business in St. Paul as a real estate broker under the name of Cremer & Co. Her husband, W. J. Cremer, as agent for her, managed the business. In February, 1886, the defendants, Mahlon D. Miller, Frank P. Blair and Robert L. Wharton, employed plaintiff to sell for them the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty one (21), T. 28, R. 22, in South St. Paul,…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The action is brought upon an alleged special contract between the parties, “wherein the defendant hired the services of this plaintiff to negotiate for and procure for the said defendant a purchaser who should be ready, able, and willing to purchase” the forty acre tract of land described in the complaint; and it is alleged that “it was agreed by and between the plaintiff and the defendant that the plaintiff should receive, if she should find a purchaser ready, able, and willing to purchase said tract of land, as compensation for her services, whatever sum the purchase price of said land…
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