Lemon v. De Wolf
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Cottonwood county to- recover $640 and interest, as broker’s commission, alleged to have been earned by plaintiffs upon procuring a purchaser for defendant’s land. The case was tried before P. E. Brown, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiffs for the sum demanded. From an order denying a motion for a new trial defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
1. If defendant’s counsel had not urged so strenuously, not only in his brief, but orally, that the complaint herein failed to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, we should say, as did the- court below, that “there is nothing in the point.” As it is, we shall refer to the subject briefly. The complaint alleged, in addition to formal matters, that the parties to this action entered into an agreement whereby the plaintiffs were to procure a purchaser for certain described lands, belonging to defendant, at a price of $30 per acre, and for procuring such purchaser the latter…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Adams v. CastleSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
3Cited by4 opinions
- Quist v. GoodfellowSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- Church v. DunhamIdaho Supreme Court · 1908
- Seewald v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Maul v. SteeleSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905