Binswanger Southern (N.C.), Inc. v. Textron, Inc.

*863 OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Binswanger Southern (N.C.), Inc. (Southern), from the trial court’s granting of defendant’s, AVCO Corporation (AVCO), motion for summary judgment. The court granted the motion because the exclusive Sales Agreement entered into by Southern’s principal, the Bin-swanger Company, and AVCO was illegal and unenforceable because Southern was not a named party to the Agreement and the party named in the Agreement, the Binswan-ger Company, was unlicensed as a real estate broker in Tennessee.

Southern filed a cross-motion for summary judgment,…