Murphy v. W. & W. Livestock Co.
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Park County; Hon. P. W. Metz, Judge. Action by W. W. Murphy against the W. & W. Live Stock Company to recover a broker’s commission for negotiating a sale of property. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant and plaintiff brings error.
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Error to the District Court, Park County; Hon. P. W. Metz, Judge. Action by W. W. Murphy against the W. & W. Live Stock Company to recover a broker’s commission for negotiating a sale of property. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant and plaintiff brings error. The action was for a recovery of a broker’s commission for finding a purchaser for lands and livestock;, the véndor is entitled to reasonable time to investigate the financial standing of an intended purchaser (Smith v. Penn, 151 Ill. I55> 9 C. J. 600); the amount of plaintiff’s commission and the fact that he found a-…
1Opinion
ON PETITION EOR REHEARING
Potter, Justice.
In this action to recover money alleged to be due as a broker’s commission, the judgment of the District Court in favor of the defendant, upon the verdict of a jury, was affirmed, and the case is again before us upon a petition for rehearing filed by the plaintiff in error, who was also plaintiff below.
The plaintiff’s right to recover was shown to depend primarily upon the effect of a conversation by telephone between him and C. C. Worland, the secretary and treasurer of the defendant company, as constituting the only agreement between the parties for…
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- Emery v. Atlanta Real Estate ExchangeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1891
- Munroe v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Lindley v. FayCalifornia Supreme Court · 1897
- Columbia Realty Investment Co. v. Alameda Land Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1917
- Ford v. BrownCalifornia Supreme Court · 1898
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