44 Ga. App. 821 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1932
1. Where an owner of real estate, after having been in negotiations with another as a prospective purchaser for the property, authorized a real-estate broker to procure a purchaser for the property, and where the broker afterwards obtained from the same person with
2. Upon the trial of a suit by the broker against the owner to recover commissions for procuring the purchaser for the property, where the defendant testified without objection as to the contents of a letter which he stated contained a threat from the holder of the mortgage to sell the land if the defendant did not pay the indebtedness, it was not harmful to the defendant for the court to exclude the letter itself from evidence.
3. Where, after counsel for the plaintiff had orally requested the court to charge that if the plaintiff found a purchaser on the proposed terms and they were finally accepted by the defendant and the trade was closed by the defendant, the defendant would be liable, the court stated, “I have already charged that in substance,” and then proceeded to charge the jury that if they believed, from the evidence, that the trade was finally concluded between the defendant and the purchaser upon the same terms which the plaintiff had procured from the purchaser, and that the plaintiff was the procuring cause of the sale, the jury should find for the plaintiff, the statement and charge by the court are not subject to the objection that they withdrew from the consideration of the jury the defendant’s contention that the threat of the mortgagee to foreclose the mortgage, and not the efforts of the plaintiff, was the procuring cause of the sale, or that they amounted to an expression of opinion upon the weight of the evidence.
4. The rulings here made are consistent with those in Doonan v. Ives & Krouse, 73 Ga. 295.
5. The verdict found for the plaintiff was authorized, and no error of law appears. Judgment affirmed.