Wright v. Jaegeris

MORGAN, Judge.

This case involves a contest between two real estate brokers, Lowell Wright and Betty Bailey, wherein each sought to establish that he or she was entitled to a commission of $1,500.00 for the sale of 130 acres of land for $30,000.00 in Clinton County, Missouri. The sellers, although originally named as defendants, had never denied owing a commission and were discharged, by stipulation, when they deposited the $1,500.00 with the court. The trial to a jury proceeded on the assumption the efforts of at least one of the brokers had to have been the “procuring cause of the sale” to…