Burrows v. Seymour

Citations

• 55 Wash. 318
• 104 P. 511
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 754

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Commissions—Agreement to Pay — Evidence—Sueeiciency. Tbe verdict of a jury, for $1,000 for an agreed broker’s commission, on tbe sale of a gas plant, should be set aside for want of any substantial evidence to justify it, where, in answer to special interrogatories, tbe jury found that tbe plaintiff represented that be bad, and that be did bave, an unespired option to control tbe majority of tbe stock of tbe gas company, in consideration of wbicb tbe defendant promised to pay tbe commission, and plaintiff testified that be could not swear that be bad an option and was merely confident tbat there was an option, from statements made by bis partner, and tbe other evidence conclusively showed that be never bad any option.</p>