Cullberg v. Workman

4 Walk. 308

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: February 5, 1883
• Docket: No. 79
• Status: Published

Opinion

The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Common Pleas on February 5, 1883, in the following opinion :

Per Curiam.

The Court affirmed the point of plaintiff, that a ship-broker can recover commissions 'only where he effects a valid and binding contract, and cannot if there was a failure in any essential condition. There was no error in further saying substantially that if he brought the parties together whereby a contract was made, it was such a performance of the beneficial service as to entitle him to his commissions. If the active effort of the broker in that behalf resulted in the making of a charter-party, it was a sufficient completion of the undertaking to permit him to recover; Keys vs. Johnson, 68 Pa., 42; Reed’s Exs. vs. Reed, 82 Pa., 420. There is no cause for reversal.

Judgment affirmed.