Wangard Partners, Inc. v. Graf

¶ 1. A commercial real estate broker commenced an action against the buyer and the seller of certain real property, alleging that the parties had conspired to negotiate secretly and to delay the consummation of the agreement they reached in order to avoid paying the broker its commission. The trial court dismissed the complaint on two grounds. First, it understood the law to require that the listing contract contain certain statutory disclosures and concluded that their absence from this listing contract rendered the contract void. Alternatively, it held that the allegations in the complaint…