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152 Ala. 507

Green & Co. v. Brady

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 13, 1907

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1907-06-13

Assumpsit. Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Samuel B. Browne. Action by Ignatius Green against P. F. Brady. From a judgment, for defendant, plaintiff appeals. This was an action in assumpsit to recover commission for the sale of real estate. The first count was for work and labor done; the second, for services rendered in the sale of certain property in Tuscaloosa; and the third, damages for the breach of an agreement in reference to the sale of property.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1917

3 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Reversed and remanded · Decided 1907-06-13

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ANDERSON, J.

¶1The trial court erred in permitting the defendant to testify that Leland told him the plaintiff had tried to sell him the property at a profit. Whether this was good evidence agains Green or not, it was clearly not proper to prove it in such a remote and indirect way. Nor should the witness Leland have been permitted to testify as to what was said and done between him and Mrs. Brady after he got to Mobile.

¶2There was no evidence to support counts 1 and 2; but, conceding that' the plaintiff proved the third count, the sufficiency of which said count we do not determine, and was entitled to the general charge, we cannot put the trial court in error for refusing charges 1 and 2 requested by the plaintiff. Charge 1 in effect assumes and instructs a finding for the plaintiff without hypothesizing the belief of the evidence by the jury. Charge 2 requests a finding for the plaintiff for defendant’s breach of a contract “to sell plaintiff’s property.” This charge does not conform to the proof. The property involved in the sale Avas Mrs. Brady’s and not the “plaintiff’s.”

¶3This case was tried upon the general issue, and involved no such defense as was injected into it by charges 1 and 2 given at' the request of the defendant.

¶4The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause is remanded.

¶5Reversed and remanded.

Tyson, C. J., and Dowdell and McClellan, JJ., concur.
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