Sterling v. Radford

— Respondents, as plaintiffs, brought this action to recover a brokers’ commission for procuring a tenant for an apartment house building. From a judgment as prayed for, the defendant has appealed.

It is admitted that the prospective tenant was first interviewed, and shown the plans of the building to be erected and leased, by another broker, and the case turns upon the question of whether or not these prior negotiations were broken off before respondents intervened and interested the same person, who finally executed the lease. The testimony which was received is conflicting upon this point,…