Giroux v. Lussier

Both parties to this controversy are real estate brokers. The plaintiff seeks recovery on a claim that the defendant fraudulently interfered with his brokerage contract with the owner and seller of a farm in Newport, Vermont. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case the trial court directed a verdict in favor of the defendant. This appeal by the plaintiff challenges several subordinate rulings, but the principal question concerns the directed verdict. To test that ruling, the facts are related without regard to conflicts in the evidence, but according to the full strength of the plaintiff’s…