DeBacker v. Forbes

DOERNER, Commissioner.

By separate counts in their joint petition plaintiff DeBacker sought to recover damages of $2600 for defendants’ alleged breach of contract for the sale of defendants’ land; and plaintiff Dorson, defendants’ real estate broker, sued for a commission of $190 he averred was owed him by defendants. Trial to a court sitting without a jury resulted in a judgment for plaintiff DeBacker for $2,000 on Count I, and one for plaintiff Dorson for $190 on Count II. Following the overruling of their motion for a new trial defendants brought this appeal.

At some undisclosed time in 1962…