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SHAFFER v. BERGER

No. 1037.

81 A.2d 469 (1951)

SHAFFER v. BERGER et al.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 15, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin B. Brown, Washington, D. C., with whom Samuel B. Brown and Nathan M. Brown, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Josiah Lyman, Washington, D. C., with whom Kathryn M. Schwarz, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and CLAGETT, Associate Judges.

CLAGETT, Associate Judge.

Defendant Shaffer wished to sell his dry cleaning and tailoring business. He gave oral permission to plaintiff Berger to seek a purchaser. Berger produced an interested buyer but before any written contract of sale was executed Shaffer sold the business to another party. Berger and William E. Thrift, trading as Thriftee Brokers, and Marie Wilde, an agent for the firm, brought an action in two counts for a broker's commission and for alleged...

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