Deicher v. Corkery

Defendants Corkery and Pond appeal from plaintiff’s judgment of $5,700 rendered after a nonjury trial in an action brought to recover a commission allegedly due to respondent from appellants as a result of a real estate transaction.

Respondent is a licensed real estate broker. In the latter part of May 1959, he entered into negotiations with appellant Pond relating to the sale of a subdivision in Riverside County, the title to which stood in the name of appellant Corkery, who, as the evidence hereinafter recited will show, was engaged in a joint venture with Pond in the ownership and…