W. F. Smith & Co. v. Lowenstein

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE McGLOON

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court, in a bench trial, denying a claim by the plaintiff for a brokerage commission. The plaintiff, a real estate brokerage firm, alleged that it earned such commission when it delivered to defendant-sellers a willing buyer for the real property which the defendants had for sale.

We affirm.

The facts in this case are as follows. The defendant-sellers Lowenstein and Lebo owned, in partnership, a two-flat building in Chicago. Sometime in January of 1968 they requested the plaintiff,…