Reh v. Bradley

This appeal is from a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon a jury’s verdict for $3,500 in an action to recover a broker’s commission. The appellants contend that the trial court erred in declining to enter a directed verdict for the defendants, in its instructions to the jury, and in sustaining objections to certain testimony.

Sometime prior to March, 1954, the appellants had given an oral option for a period of one year to one Joseph C. Pacheo for the purchase of their farm near Clinton, Prince George’s County. This was not exercised, and on March 8, 1954, they wrote a letter to the…