Morrow v. Barger

OPINION

I. Claire Morrow claims she is entitled to a real estate broker’s commission pursuant to a written listing agreement, an oral listing agreement or an implied listing agreement for the sale of the ranch of Fay and Anne Barger. The district court granted the Bargers’ motion for summary judgment concluding as a matter of law that no employment agreement existed and that Claire Morrow was not the procuring cause of the sale.

The Facts

For several years prior to 1979, Fay Barger and Anne Barger had been attempting to sell their Nevada ranch through several diiferent brokers. On March 7, 1979,…