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Author: {"author": "SAYRE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 366
    SISSLER REALTY CO. v. PAPP
    Ohio Appeals, 8th Dist., Cuyahoga County
    No. 4931.
    Decided March 20, 1924
    997. REAL ESTATE — Rule that real estate agent must find person ready and willing to buy, is satisfied if prospective buyer agrees to buy, then later refuses.
    460. EQUITY — Contract for sale of both personalty and realty will be specifically enforced.
    Attorneys — F. W. Emslie and R. L. Carr., for Sissler Realty Co.; Treadway & Marlatt and P. P. Cunningham, for Papp; all of Cleveland.
   SAYRE, J.

Epitomized Opinion

Published Only In Ohio Law Abstract

Action to recover a real estate commission. The evidence disclosed that the person who agreed to buy the property later refused and the deal was not consummated. The jury returned a verdict for Papp, who was' claiming the commission, and judgment was rendered thereon. It was also contended that no binding contract was entered into because there could be no specific performance of an agreement to sell both personalty and realty. In affirming the judgment the Court of Appeals held:

1. Having once agreed to purchase and invested plaintiff with the right to his commission, the purchaser could not defeat such right by deciding later to withdraw from the contract.

2. “When personal property is mingled with an agreement for sale of realty, the court will decree specific performance of the entire com tract.”