Hirsch v. Rosenberg

Mrs. Anna M. Hirsch, widow of Ferdinand Rieger, agreed to sell to Harry Rosenberg, a certain piece of real estate bearing the municipal number 1815 Tulane Avenue in the City of New Orleans, for the sum of $5,750. The sale was negotiated by Walter F. Weidig, a real estate broker, who procured Mrs. Rieger's signature to an offer to purchase made by Rosenberg, after she had written on the printed form in which the offer was made "no commission". Thereafter, as is customary, Rosenberg deposited with Weidig 10% of the purchase price or $575. When the time came for the passage of the act of sale…