Gaut v. Dunlap

Appellant Gaut sued appellees Eli Dunlap and W. L. Brodie to recover $250, alleged to be due him as commissions for negotiating an exchange of property between appellees and one Walter Cheek. Prom a judgment for appellees this appeal is prosecuted.

[1] The refusal of the court to direct a verdict for appellant is first assigned as error. It is first contended under this assignment that the following proposition is applicable and should control the disposition of the case:

“Where a real estate broker is employed to procure an exchange of real property, and he produces a person with whom his…