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- Title: Pratt v. Realty Associates
- Author : District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
- Release Date : January 18, 1946
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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CAYTON, Associate Judge. Realty Associates, Inc., a real estate broker, was engaged by Ethel J. Pratt, defendant below and appellant here, to find a purchaser for Mayland real estate owned by her. The broker procured a purchaser, John W. McCune, who signed a contract of sale which was in turn accepted and signed by Mrs. Pratt as owner. The purchaser put up a deposit of $500, half of which the owner retained, turning over the other half to the broker. The contract bound the seller to install a bath on the first floor of the premises at her own expense. This work not having been performed when the time for settlement expired, purchaser demanded return of his deposit. Seller honored the demand by returning the $250 she held and authorizing the agent to refund the $250 in his hands. Thereafter the broker sued the owner for his commission of $450 (and for two other items which are not involved on this appeal). Defendant denied liability and made a counterclaim for rent lost and for a plumbing bill. The trial Judge found for plaintiff for $450 and disallowed defendant's counterclaim. In bringing the case here for review defendant assigned eleven errors; but the case may more satisfactorily be decided on the basis of three principal contentions.