McCall v. Johns

• POPE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Randolph D. McCall, appealed from a judgment upon an instructed verdict. The suit concerns the validity of an oral agreement between McCall arid the owner’s agent, as controlled by the 1949 Real Estate Dealers License Act. Plaintiff first asserted an agreement between himself, as purchaser, and the owner’s agent by which he would receive one-half of the real' estate commission. That' agreement was invalid. Alternatively he claimed that the owner’s agent, to save the trade' for the owner and to make the trade possible, agreed to' share his commission with the-…