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  "name": "M. Goldstein, Defendant in Error, v. Paul Setka and Anna Setka, Plaintiffs in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Goldstein v. Setka",
  "decision_date": "1915-12-21",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,105",
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    "parties": [
      "M. Goldstein, Defendant in Error, v. Paul Setka and Anna Setka, Plaintiffs in Error."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "George H. Mason, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Q. J. Chott, for defendant in error; Frank H. Culver, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "M. Goldstein, Defendant in Error, v. Paul Setka and Anna Setka, Plaintiffs in Error.\nGen. No. 21,105.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John J. Rooney, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 21, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by M. Goldstein, plaintiff, against Paul Setka and Anna Setka, defendants, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, to recover the amount of a broker\u2019s commission for negotiating the sale of certain real estate. To reverse a judgment for plaintiff for $337.50, defendants prosecute this writ of error.\nThe plaintiff, M. Goldstein, on October 29, 1913, filed his statement of claim to recover commissions as a real estate broker. The defendants entered their appearance and demanded a jury trial. Subsequently plaintiff filed an amended statement of claim in which he alleged, in substance, that his claim was for commissions due him as a licensed real estate broker for procuring at defendants\u2019 request a purchaser, one S. Oliff, for certain real estate with improvements thereon owned by defendants and .situated in the City of Chicago; that the property was sold by the defendants to said Oliff on June 23, 1913, for the sum of $13,500; and that the amount due plaintiff as commissions was two and one-half per cent, on said sum, or $337.50. The defendants in their affidavit of merits alleged, in substance, that they did not employ plaintiff as a broker or otherwise with reference to said sale and that plaintiff did not act as agent for defendants but as agent for said Oliff in the transaction. The jury returned a verdict finding the issues against the defendants and assessing plaintiff\u2019s damages at $337.50, upon which verdict the court entered the judgment here sought to be reversed.\nThe evidence showed that plaintiff was a duly licensed real estate broker, that defendants owned the property and that plaintiff carried on negotiations with Oliff with the knowledge of defendants which resulted in the sale.\nIt appeared that as a result of the efforts and negotiations of plaintiff the parties were brought together and signed a written contract whereby defendants agreed to sell and Oliff to buy the property for $14,000; that subsequently further negotiations were had which resulted in the price being reduced to $13,500; that there was no special agreement between plaintiff and defendants as to the commissions to be received by plaintiff, but that those commissions were usually two and a half per cent, on the purchase price.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Brokers, \u00a7 88 \u2014when evidence sufficient to sustain judgment. In an action to recover the amount of a broker\u2019s commission for negotiating the sale of certain real estate, judgment for plaintiff held warranted by the evidence.\n2. Brokers, \u00a7 62 \u2014when broker acting for both parties entitled to commissions. Where it appears that through the efforts of a licensed real estate broker the owners and purchaser of real estate were brought together and a contract made for the sale of the real estate, a contract may be implied by which such owners agreed to pay such broker a commission for negotiating such sale, although such broker was never formally employed as broker by such owners, and although it appears that such broker was also acting as agent for the purchaser' of such real estate in the same transaction, provided such owners knew of such employment by such purchaser, and provided no fraud was practiced by such broker on such owners.\n3. Brokers, \u00a7 38 \u2014when broker presenting purchaser entitled to commissions. When a broker has presented to his principal a purchaser whom the principal is willing to accept and does accept, and such purchaser and principal enter into a contract of sale, the broker\u2019s commissions are earned.\nGeorge H. Mason, for plaintiff in error.\nQ. J. Chott, for defendant in error; Frank H. Culver, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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