Goldner v. Polak

On May 19th, 1924, the plaintiff and the defendant Joseph Polak executed a contract by the terms of which Polak, named therein as the “owner,” constituted the plaintiff “the sole agent of the said owner for a period of twelve months (and thereafter until termination at the expiration of a ninety days’ written notice from the owner) to effect a sale” of the owner’s farm in Yalesville. The contract further provided that the plaintiff should use diligent efforts to effect a sale and that he should “receive five per cent of any offer accepted by the said owner during the life of this contract,…