Ramsey v. West
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, JIon. Turner A. Gill, Judge. I. The court erred in refusing the first instruction asked by defendant. (1) Because plaintiff did not show that he ever spoke to purchaser in regard to defendant’s property, or said, or did anything to induce him to buy it.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, JIon. Turner A. Gill, Judge. I. The court erred in refusing the first instruction asked by defendant. (1) Because plaintiff did not show that he ever spoke to purchaser in regard to defendant’s property, or said, or did anything to induce him to buy it. Armstrong v. Winn, 29 Minn. 126. ( 2) Because, even if plaintiff made the contract offered in evidence, it could not be enforced by the owner, and the purchaser abandoned it and refused to carry it out. Plaintiff not being the procuring cause of the sale { made more than one year and a half afterwards), is…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
This suit was brought to recover five hundred dollars as broker’s commission for selling the defendant’s land to one Samuel Schaeffer, for twenty thousand dollars. The evidence tended to show that, through the aid of plaintiff, acting as a broker for the defendant, under employment by the latter, the defendant entered into the following agreement with. Schaeffer:
“This agreement, made this twenty-fifth day of July, 1882, between John S. West, of Kaw township, Jackson county, Missouri, of the first part, and S. C. Schaeffer, of Lancaster, Ohio, of the second part, witnesseth: That in…
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