Sharp v. Hoopes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reed, J.

Hoopes, the plaintiff below, sued to recover commission as a real estate agent for securing a tenant for a house belonging _ to Sharp. Mr. Hoopes met a lady who wished to rent a house. He seems to have known that Mr. Sharp had a house for rent. He went to the residence of a daughter of Mr. Sharp and there saw Mrs. Sharp, the wife of the defendant below, and got from her the amount of rental asked for the house. He then took the prospective tenant, Mrs. Johnson, to the house, then in the occupation of another tenant, and exhibited the same to…