Conrad v. Artha Garza Co.

CARVER, Justice.

Gerald F. Conrad appeals from a judgment awarding Artha Garza Company, a corporation, a real estate brokerage commission on the sale of Conrad’s real property. We reverse and remand because Garza failed to prove “that the person performing the brokerage services was a duly licensed real estate broker or salesman at the time the alleged services were commenced” as required by Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 6573a, § 20(a) (Vernon Supp.1980).

Garza went to trial on its first amended original petition alleging that it was “at all times pertinent hereto a duly licensed real estate…