Moore v. Griffith

This is an action wherein a real-estate broker sought his commission for the sale of a farm owned in part by the defendants. Since the trial court directed the verdict for the defendants at the close of all the testimony, on the grounds of its insufficiency to establish plaintiff.’s right to recover, we will first review the evidence tending to support the allegations of the petition.

Plaintiff is a licensed real-estate broker in-Mason City, Iowa. A certain farm consisting of two hundred and eighty acres in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, became the subject of a partition suit brought by two owners…