Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1925

MacDonald v. Smith

MacDonald v. Smith
Superior Court of Pennsylvania · Decided October 23, 1925 · Pee, Poster, Henderson, Trexler, Keller, Linn, Gawthrop, Knowles
86 Pa. Super. 496; 1925 Pa. Super. LEXIS 163

MacDonald v. Smith

Opinion of the Court

Pee Curiam,

This is an action by a real estate broker to recover commissions upon a sale of real estate for the defeudant, alleged to have been effected by the plaintiff. The question at issue, under the pleadings, was whether the services of the plaintiff were the effective cause of the sale. The testimony was conflicting. The judge submitted the question of fact to the jury with the instruction, in substance, that in order to entitle the plaintiff to recover he must show that his services were β€œthe direct, immediate and efficient cause of this sale.” The defendant took no exception to the charge, nor is any one of the assignments of error based upon an exception taken in the court below. We have, however, examined the brief of the appellant and the record, as printed, and find in such record no fundamental error which would warrant us in reversing the judgment in the absence of a well founded assignment of error. The assignments of error are all dismissed.

The judgment is affirmed.

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