Jackson v. Lacy
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the reasonable worth of services rendered by a broker in effecting a sale of real estate, brought to the City Court of New Haven and tried to the jury before Booth, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,652, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover the reasonable worth of services rendered by a broker in effecting a sale of real estate, brought to the City Court of New Haven and tried to the jury before Booth, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,652, and appeal by the defendant. The complaint is in the usual form, and alleges that the plaintiff rendered services in the sale of defendant’s real estate under an agreement by the defendant to pay what the plaintiff’s services were reasonably worth, and that they were worth $2,500, which has never been paid. The answer admits that the services were rendered…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The first reason of appeal does not comply with the rules, because it assigns as error that the court charged the jury as to certain particulars “as set forth in paragraph 9 of the finding,” which paragraph contains the whole charge.
The second and only other reason of appeal is con fined by reference to that portion of the charge above quoted, and brings up the single question whether the court erred in charging the jury “that plaintiff was under no burden to prove there was no specific agreement as to his commission, and that the burden of proof was upon the defendant to disprove plaintiff’s…
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