Mangano v. Rooney

This action of the case in assumpsit was brought by a real estate broker to recover his commission for procuring a purchaser for defendants’ real estate. At the conclusion of the evidence in the superior court the trial justice directed a verdict for the plaintiff and denied defendants’ motion for a directed verdict. The case is here on defendants’ exceptions to those rulings.

It appears from the evidence that defendants entered, into a written agreement with the plaintiff on September 18, 1947 to retain him as their exclusive agent for sixty days to sell their real estate situate at 28…