Schneider v. Biglieri

OPINION

The sole issue on this appeal is whether the trial court had before it sufficient evidence to conclude as it did that respondent Biglieri, a licensed real estate broker, was the “procuring cause” of a series of leases in the Capitol Plaza office development in Carson City.

In late 1972, Biglieri entered into an oral contract with appellants Schneider and Jouflas, as S J Corp., under which Biglieri was to procure lessees for an office development then under construction in Carson City. Seeing the various agencies of the state government as ideal potential lessees, Biglieri then entered…