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- Title: Ross v. Colonial Provisions Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 17, 1937
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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LUMMUS, Justice. The Judge, sitting without a jury, found for the plaintiff in the sum of $5,200 and interest in an action for services. Counts of the declaration based upon a claim for a brokers commission were made immaterial by the finding of the Judge that no such commission had been promised. The plaintiff is a real estate broker of thirty years experience. The defendant is a corporation, organized in 1918, which cures and smokes meats and makes sausages. One sixth of its stock is owned by one Lewis, and the rest is held in equal shares by one Rabinowitz, the president, and one Drucker, the treasurer. Rabinowitz, Drucker, and an employee named Braen were the directors during the events in question. In 1933 it was conducting business in six scattered buildings in the market district of Boston, and was anxious to gather its business under one roof. The plaintiff heard that the defendant was desirous of buying real estate, and as a broker offered the defendant several parcels. One difficulty was that a location satisfactory to the defendant would cost with improvements as much as $180,000, and the defendant did not wish to use its own capital for the purpose. The evidence showed that the defendant at least permitted the plaintiff to perform in its behalf valuable and extended service in negotiating the purchase of land and arranging to finance the purchase and the improvements. The details need not be recited. The Judge found that the value of the plaintiffs services was $5,200. There was evidence warranting that finding.