Chapman v. Currie

The plaintiffs are real-estate agents, and they sne defendant for value of their services in bringing about the exchange of a farm formerly owned by the defendant for some real estate belonging to New-berry and Valentine. The action was commenced on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1891. The petition declares on a special contract of employment, and an agreement by the defendant to pay to plaintiffs two and one-half-per-cent, commission on the value of his property, provided a sale or trade was effected by them. The petition also contains the averment, that the above commission or…