Faulkner v. Stapleton Insurance & Realty Corp.

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is a suit by Stapelton Insurance and Realty Corporation, a corporation, against James H. Faulkner, James M. Folmar and Henry I. Flinn, Jr., to recover a broker's commission in the amount of $21,250 allegedly due under an employment agreement involving what is known as the Northrop lands in Monroe County, Alabama. The trial court, sitting without a jury, rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff for $5,000. The defendants bring this appeal from that judgment.

Appellants insist that the judgment should be reversed for the following reasons:

I. Appellee did not have a broker’s…