Johnson v. Hulings
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of McKean county: Of January Term 1883, No. 256. Assumpsit, by J. T. Johnson against Marcus Hulings.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of McKean county: Of January Term 1883, No. 256. Assumpsit, by J. T. Johnson against Marcus Hulings. The narr. was in the common counts, and under a rule to lile a bill of particulars, plaintiff filed the following paper : J. T. Johnson being duly sworn saith that on or about the mouths of April or May, A. I). 1878, at the Collins House, Oil City, Pa., Marcus Hulings agreed with deponent that he would pay him the sura of ten thousand dollars if he would find him a purchaser for one-half his interest in about 6,000 acres of land with a drilling well thereon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
In this case, by a special verdict, the jury found that tire plaintiff was, in the year 1878, the year of the transaction involved in this controversy, and also for some years before and after that period, engaged in the business of buying and selling *501real estate for others upon commission. That in that year he had no license or commission as a real estate broker, and that it was during this time that he negotiated a sale of real estate to II. L. Taylor and company for the defendant for which he was to receive $10,000. On looking over the evidence we find that this verdict was founded upon…
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