Greenblatt v. Fox

Citations

• 59 Pa. Super. 53
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 21

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Real estate brolcer — Commissions.</p> <p>1. In an action by a real estate broker to recover commissions, a verdict and judgment will be sustained where the evidence tends to show that the defendant employed the plaintiff to sell real estate, that plaintiff secured a purchaser who signed a contract with the defendant; that on the day the contract was signed defendant gave plaintiff a writing in which he agreed to pay a sum stated “on completion of the transaction entered into this day;” that the purchasers although reliable' did not complete the purchase, and the defendant made no effort to compel them to do so.</p> <p>2. In such a case where the person who signed the contract was not the real purchaser, but merely signed as the attorney in fact of a straw man for a firm of undisclosed real estate dealers, but there is nothing in the evidence to show that the plaintiff knew this fact, although the attorney in fact signing the contract was his own son, the plaintiff will not be deprived of his commissions on the ground that he concealed from his principal material information.</p>