Monroe v. Snow
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John P. Altgeld, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, in the Superior Court of Cook county, by Edgar M. Snow and Theodore G-. Dickinson, partners, against Stephen Monroe, to recover commissions on the sale of certain real estate.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John P. Altgeld, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, in the Superior Court of Cook county, by Edgar M. Snow and Theodore G-. Dickinson, partners, against Stephen Monroe, to recover commissions on the sale of certain real estate. The defendant, residing at Albion, Michigan, who was the owner of certain real estate in the city of Chicago, known as Nos. 190 and 192 Fifth avenue, called at the office of the plaintiffs, in Chicago, in December,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shope
The plaintiffs, real estate brokers of the city of Chicago, brought this action to recover commissions on a sale of certain real estate of the defendant, made by them in pursuance of a verbal authority and contract with the defendant. The point of contention is, whether the agents were authorized to sell for the price of $90,000.
It appears from the evidence that the defendant authorized the plaintiffs, verbally, to sell the property for $100,000, but if they could do no better, to take $95,000. This was in December, 1884, and at that time, and in the presence of the defendant, one of the…
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