Rees-Thomson-Scroggins, Inc. v. Nelson

Rogosheske, Justice.

A municipal court jury awarded plaintiff, a licensed real estate broker, $3,150 as a commission for selling defendants’ home. The award was based upon a. finding that plaintiff was the procuring cause of the sale. In response to a post-trial motion, the trial court granted defendants judgment notwithstanding the verdict essentially upon the ground that in view of the applicable principles of law the evidence did not justify the jury’s finding. We affirm.

The essential facts are not in dispute. Defendants, sometime prior to 1962, purchased their home for $52,000, and in the…