Realty Investments, Inc. v. Harris

Argued November 19, 1949. This assumpsit action to recover a real estate commission was heard by a court without a jury. The trial judge found for the plaintiff, his findings were sustained by the court en banc, and the defendant took this appeal.

The facts are not in dispute. The plaintiff, a duly licensed real estate broker, was employed by the defendant to sell certain real estate owned by it in Pittsburgh for the price of $3,000.00, on which the plaintiff was to be paid the usual brokerage commission of 5 percent. On October 14, 1942, the plaintiff secured a purchaser for the property, one…