Owens v. Wehrle

Citations

• 14 Pa. Super. 536
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 77

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Consideration—Real estate broker — •Sale by another person.</p> <p>The courts do not sit to relieve suitors from the results of improvident agreements and the consequences of bad bargains.</p> <p>By a contract under seal the owner of real estate agreed to pay to a real estate broker a commission if property recited be sold within a stipulated time, either by the broker or any other person. Held, that even in the absence of proof that the plaintiff made an effort to sell the property the suggestion of defense arising by reason of lack of consideration is met by the presence of a seal to the agreement importing consideration.</p>