Richards v. Jackson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This action was brought by the appellee against the appellant’s testator, in his lifetime, to recover for services rendered as a real-estate broker.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This action was brought by the appellee against the appellant’s testator, in his lifetime, to recover for services rendered as a real-estate broker. The appellee was employed by Byrd to procure a purchaser for certain premises, No. 51 Courtland street, to be sold in fee simple for $5,000. The appellee found one Albert A. Johnson who was willing to purchase, and who, on the 10th of August, 1865, entered into a written contract to purchase the property for the sum of §8,500, subject to a ground-rent of $90 per annum. The purchase-money was to be paid in…
1Opinion of the CourtBrent, J.
' We have very carefully considered the argument of the counsel for the appellee, in which he urges, with great zeal and ingenuity, that the case of Kimberly vs. Henderson § Lupton, 29 Md., 512, should be overruled. He has failed to convince us that there is any error in that de*253cisión. It is fully sustained by the authorities cited in the opinion, and, we think, correctly states the law.
(Decided 30th June, 1869.)
It is there held that a broker, employed to sell real estate, must produce a person who ultimately becomes a purchaser, before he is entitled to his commissions. It is not sufficient…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kimberly v. HendersonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1868
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