Casey v. Fritz Carlton Hotel Co.

This is an action of contract to recover a real estate brokerage commission. The exceptions relate to the refusal of the judge to allow the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and to the admission of certain evidence.

The defendant, Fritz Carlton Hotel Company, owns, and all during the year 1922, owned and operated, the Fritz Carlton Hotel, located at the corner of Boylston Street and Hemenway Street, Boston, Massachusetts. “It is agreed that Mina E. Fritz, the President and Treasurer of the defendant corporation, had authority to act for and to bind the defendant in its dealings with…