Black & Co. v. Barr

Citations

• 14 Pa. Super. 98
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 20

Syllabus

<p>Beal estate broker — Commissions—Good faith of agent — Question for jury.</p> <p>A real estate broker had found a purchaser at a price stipulated for land purported to be owned by his principal and was then referred by him to other tenants in common with whom he subsequently made terms at a higher price as to two-eighths interest owned by them, but did not disclose this to his first principal. Held, there was no duty owing by the agent as to the outstanding two eighths, and it was not incumbent upon him to inform his principal, and that in a suit by a broker for his commissions against his original principal plaintiff was entitled to go to the jury upon the question of fulfillment of the terms of the original contract.</p> <p>Appeal — Compulsory nonsuit — Inference in plaintiff's motion for.</p> <p>A motion for a compulsory nonsuit necessarily implies an admission of every fact which might have been fairly found by the jury from the plaintiff’s evidence.</p>