Smith v. Laflar

Plaintiff owns certain real property in Salem which he was desirous of selling or exchanging for other property. He applied to defendant, a real estate broker of Salem, who informed him that he had a client who owned property in Harrisburg and who might make an exchange of the properties, and it was then arranged that plaintiff and defendant would go to Harrisburg to examine the property owned by defendant’s client; later, it was decided that they should go together and use defendant’s automobile for that purpose. While on the trip an accident happened and plaintiff sustained personal…