Summers

This is an appeal from a judgment for $6,250 following a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, whose recovery was based upon a written agreement of employment between him as a real estate broker and the defendant.

On January 22, 1951, defendant-appellant Freeman approached plaintiff-respondent Summers. The appellant owned a piece of commercial property in South San Francisco and was interested in exchanging it for commercial property in San Francisco.

Respondent contacted owners of property in San Francisco including Maurice Stulsaft who owned the Land Development Company. Stulsaft gave respondent 12 statements of buildings he owned and the respondent gave appellant copies of three of them.

Respondent looked over the three buildings first and went to the San Francisco Real Estate Board to make an onionskin map of the block in which the three buildings were located. From this map respondent made two copies on cardboard, one of which he gave to appellant.

Armed with the maps and the breakdowns on the buildings, which included cost, type of construction, number of square feet etc., respondent met appellant in front of one of the buildings being considered and the one ultimately…