Shell Oil Company v. Ed Hoppe Realty Inc.

*578OPINION

By the Court,

Gunderson, C. J.:

These appeals follow judgment for Ed Hoppe Realty Inc. (Hoppe) against Shell Oil Company (Shell), in the sum of $15,000, representing a real estate commission on the sale of three Shell service stations. The trial court denied Hoppe relief against the buyer of the stations, Husky Oil Company of Delaware (Husky). SheE and Hoppe have appealed. Shell contends evidence at trial was insufficient to show a broker-cHent relationship between Shell and Hoppe, or to establish Hoppe as the “procuring cause” of the sale. Hoppe contends the contrary, and also that the…