Maynes Real Estate, Inc. v. McPherron

*426LARSON, Justice.

These plaintiffs sued to collect a real estate commission allegedly due under an oral listing agreement for the sale of farmland owned by the defendants Miller. The district court denied recovery under a claim of quantum meruit based on its finding that the plaintiffs efforts did nothing to promote the sale. On appeal, the case was transferred to the court of appeals, which affirmed, but on a different basis: that our decision in Milholin v. Vorhies, 320 N.W.2d 552 (Iowa 1982), which held oral listing contracts to be unenforceable, must logically be extended to preclude…