Kost v. Reilly
Supreme Court of Connecticut
New Haven & Fairfield Cos., April T., 1892. Andrews, C. J., Carpenter, Seymour, Torrance and Fenn, Js. Action to recover a broker’s commissions for selling property for the defendant; brought, by appeal from a justice of the peace, to the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, and tried to the court before Perry, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
On the 15th day of May, 1890, the defendant was the owner of a certain saloon in the city of Bridgeport which prior to that time he had been conducting. He desired to sell out his stock, furniture and business, and engaged the plaintiff as a broker “to procure a purchaser therefor—to effect a sale,”—upon the agreement that he should receive a commission equal to five per cent of the purchase money in case he succeeded. Pursuant to that employment the plaintiff brought one Longmuir to the defendant, with whom the defendant had negotiations such that a written agreement was entered into and…
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