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SAM BLANKEN & CO. v. TINOS, INC.

No. 3773.

219 A.2d 499 (1966)

SAM BLANKEN & CO., Inc., a corporation, Appellant, v. TINOS, INC., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 12, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isadore B. Katz, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Harry A. Calevas, Washington, D. C., with whom Thomas A. Farrell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.

HOOD, Chief Judge.

This action was brought by appellant-broker to recover a commission on the sale of Tino's Villa, a restaurant business. The trial court found for appellee, the vendor of the business.

It is well settled that a broker cannot recover a commission under an ordinary brokerage agreement unless he was the procuring cause of the sale. O'Brien v. Morgan, D.C.Mun.App., 104 A.2d 411 (1954). And the question of whether...

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