Barber v. Great Southern Development Co.

W. R. Barber filed suit in the Circuit Court of Harrison County against Great Southern Development Company, Inc., to recover $50,000 alleged to be due him by the defendant as a real estate commission on the sale of the Great Southern Golf Course to Mrs. Dorothy D. Brown for $1,000,000. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant, judgment was entered accordingly, and the plaintiff appealed.

Appellee was the owner of a golf course on U. S. Highway 90 between Gulfport and Biloxi in Harrison County, and it was the desire of Joe Stewart, a resident of Buffalo, New York, and president and…