Stewart v. Mather
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Waushara County. The action was brought to recover $1,000 alleged to be due the plaintiff for services rendered by him to the defendants at their request, in 1868 and 1869, in and about the sale of certain real estate, known as “ The Ranch,” for which services defendants promised to pay, etc.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Waushara County. The action was brought to recover $1,000 alleged to be due the plaintiff for services rendered by him to the defendants at their request, in 1868 and 1869, in and about the sale of certain real estate, known as “ The Ranch,” for which services defendants promised to pay, etc. The answer, among other things, alleges that in the autumn of 1868, the defendants and one Kimball, being “ joint owners and tenants in common ” of said tract of land, contracted to sell and did sell and convey the same to one Ward and the present plaintiff; but it…
1Opinion of the Court
DIXON, O. J.
The jury, under the instructions of the court, have either found that the plaintiff, for the commission named, undertook to produce a party ready and willing to make the purchase at such price as might be agreed upon between the defendants and such purchaser when brought together, or they have found that the plaintiff, for a like commission, undertook to procure a purchaser at the price of fifteen dollars per acre *349for tbe farm, and that when the purchaser and the defendants came together, the defendants consented to sell and did sell the property to the purchaser furnished by the…
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- Lincoln v. McClatchieSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1869
- Herman v. MartineauWisconsin Supreme Court · 1853
- Woods v. StephensSupreme Court of Missouri · 1870
- Mullen v. KeetzlebCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1870
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