First National Bank of Brinkley v. Nash

Tom Glaze, Judge.

This case arose out of a dispute involving the sale of a farming operation and whether a real estate commission was to be paid a real estate broker by appellees as a result of the sale. Appellees, Freeland Nash (Nash) and Otto Clifton (Clifton) formed a corporation, appellee Eden Farms, Inc. (Eden Farms), and purchased a nine hundred acre farm in 1974. The underlying facts in this dispute are somewhat unusual because the real estate broker, Larry Guthrie (Guthrie), who assisted in the sale of the farm, was also the President of the appellant First National Bank of Brinkley…