Downing v. Halle Bros. Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice McBride,

This appeal is from an order granting defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings. Therefore the material facts, as pleaded, will be accepted.

The Halle Bros. Company, defendant, owned a valuable piece of property used as a parking lot in Erie, Pennsylvania. Plaintiff, Downing, who was a resident of Erie, acquired knowledge of the fact that defendant wished to sell its property and thereafter contacted the defendant corporation and its Cleveland realty agent, the Maerkle-White-Huxtable-Auble Co. He received, on January 31, 1952, a letter of authority from…