Alfred K. Greene v. Maynard Hellman

This appeal by the defendant Maynard Hellman comes to us in the context of a claim by plaintiff Alfred K. Greene, a real estate broker, who asserts he was wrongfully deprived of commissions due him on the sale of a shopping center owned by Hellman to I. Gordon Realty Corporation. Greene had been invited to procure a buyer for the property by the defendant Richard E. Driscoll. A central issue is the applicability of the agency doctrine of apparent authority in determining whether the co-defendant Driscolls arrangement with Greene was binding on Hellman. Disputed too is whether Greene was the procuring cause of the ultimate sale, consummated as it was directly between the buyer and seller about a year after Greene had informed Gordon that the property was for sale.