De Wolf v. Wisconsin Lakes Ice & Cartage Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee -county: Warren D. Tabeant, Circuit Judge. Tbis action was brought to recover commission on sale of real estate based upon the following contract: “Whereas, John R. De Wolf has undertaken to procure a lessee or purchaser for the Wisconsin Lahes Ice & Cartage ■Company, of the real estate in the city and county of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known and described as lot nine (9), in section sixteen (16), town seven (J) north, of…
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee -county: Warren D. Tabeant, Circuit Judge. Tbis action was brought to recover commission on sale of real estate based upon the following contract: “Whereas, John R. De Wolf has undertaken to procure a lessee or purchaser for the Wisconsin Lahes Ice & Cartage ■Company, of the real estate in the city and county of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known and described as lot nine (9), in section sixteen (16), town seven (J) north, of range twenty-two (22)'east, in the Eighteenth ward, west of the right of way of (lie Chicago & Northwestern Railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtKeewiN, J.
The case turns upon the proper construction of the contract between plaintiff and defendant set up in the statement of facts. By this contract the plaintiff was- to be paid $600 upon execution of a lease about which negotiations were pending at'the time the contract was made. This lease was executed by the defendant to the Christianson Engineering Company as lessee and the $600 paid. The lease was for the term of ten years, and contained an option to the Chris-tianson Engineering Company, its successors and assigns-, to purchase. Under the lease and option the Christianson Engineering Company…
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