Marsh v. Drowne

These are four various actions of contract brought in the Superior Court by the prospective purchaser of a house and land in Newton (the property) to recover damages for the alleged breach by one or both of the defendants of a written agreement to sell the property and by a real estate broker to recover a commission alleged to have been earned in the circumstances hereinafter described. The cases are here on the plaintiffs’ exceptions to the denial of some forty-six requests for rulings submitted in the various actions.

What we shall call the first action (No. 636424) was brought by Edward B.…