Equity Benefit Life Insurance Co. v. Trent

BARNES, Justice:

This is an action for recovery of damages for breach of a written contract filed by Appellee, Richard 0. Trent (Trent), against Appellant, Equity Benefit Life Insurance Company (Equity). The case was tried to the court and judgment rendered for Trent. Equity brings this appeal.

The testimony is very conflicting. Trent is a broker of businesses, with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, whose livelihood comes from bringing seller and buyer together in transactions by which one party sells and the other party purchases a going business. Trent holds himself out as a broker of…