Doonan v. Ives
Supreme Court of Georgia
Principal and Agent, Real Estate Agents. Commissions. Contracts. Vendor and Purchaser. Before Judge Hammond. Fulton Superior Court.
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Principal and Agent, Real Estate Agents. Commissions. Contracts. Vendor and Purchaser. Before Judge Hammond. Fulton Superior Court. March Term, 1884. Ives & Krouse, real estate agents, brought suit to the fall term, 1883, of Fulton superior court, on an account against Mrs. Ellen Doonan for $250 for commissions on sale of a certain lot of defendant’s, on Whitehall street, in the city of Atlanta, to John Keely for $8,000, charging 5 per cent on the first $2,000 and 2-J- per cent on the remainder. The defendant pleaded the general issue. On the trial, the plaintiffs introduced the following…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The defendants in error sued the plaintiff in error for commissions as .brokers, and recovered. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and plaintiff in error excepted.
1, We think that the plaintiff in error should have been permitted to prove by Keely that-the brokers had no influence on him in the sale made by herself to him, and that the testimony in the eighth, ninth and tenth grounds of the motion sought to be drawn out by the questions asked, should have been admitted, and the answers to those questions should have gone to the'jury.
The ease, to say the least, is…
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