Scarborough v. Darnell & Stagner

Darnell & Stagner sued Willie L. Scarborough to recover commissions as-real estate brokers for having effected an exchange of her real property with one W. P. Pulley. The defendant answered admitting the plaintiffs’ cause of action, except in so far as the same might be defeated by her affirmative plea that she had been damaged in an amount in excess of the commissions sued for by reason of the fact that plaintiffs as her agents had wrongfully and negligently misrepresented her property to Pulley, upon dis covering which Pulley had declined to go on with the trade unless she would release him…