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· 4/15/1953

Hammond v. C. I. T. Financial Corp.

Citations

  • 203 F.2d 705
  • 1953 U.S. App. LEXIS 3420

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • the defendant’s failure to refer the buyer to the broker breached the listing agreement and thus entitled the broker to a commission
  • “[T]he contract had already been breached by the failure to refer.”
  • “Since the district court found that the plaintiff would have been as successful in negotiating the Redmond [sale] as was the defendant, the damages consist of the loss sustained when Redmond was not referred to the plaintiff, i.e., five per cent of the sales price.”
  • involving broker contract for sale of business

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Judges: Hand, Chase, Clark

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