Suburban Realty Co. v. Sturgeon

HOWARD, Presiding Judge.

This is a suit for a real estate commission on the sale of a house and four acres of land located on Blue River Road in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. Trial to the court without a jury resulted in judgment for the defendant. We shall refer to the parties as they appeared below. The suit was originally brought against respondent James Sturgeon and his wife, but the undisputed evidence at the trial was that the wife was then dead. Therefore, we shall refer to Mr. Sturgeon as the sole respondent. We shall attempt to relate the facts in chronological order.

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