Land Office Co. v. Clapp-Thomssen Co.

LEVINE, Justice.

The defendants, Clapp-Thomssen Co., Edward D. Clapp, and Frederick H. Clapp, appeal from a district court judgment awarding the Land Office Company $250,-000 plus interest on two promissory notes and dismissing the defendants’ counterclaim. We affirm.

In the spring of 1985, Price Development Associates listed four twenty-four unit apartment buildings (apartments) in Grand Forks for sale with Land Office, a real estate brokerage firm located in Fargo. Martin O’Connor, a partner in Price Development and the president of Land Office, contacted Clapp-Thomssen to assist Land Office…