Black v. Pentony

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 38
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 8

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Commissions—Liquor license.</p> <p>An owner of a liquor license agreed to pay a certain amount in commissions to an agent if the latter would procure a purchaser for the license. The agreement was conditioned upon the approval by the license court of a transfer of the license to the proposed purchaser. The agent produced a purchaser, but the owner of the license refused to make the sale, and refused to pay the commissions. Held, that the owner of the license was liable for nominal damages -only if he refused for a good reason to make the sale, but that he was liable for the whole commissions if his action in refusing to make the sale was in bad faith.</p>