Gaitz v. Markman

BARRON, Justice.

This suit is based upon an oral contract of a real estate broker, J. J. Gaitz, who sued Phillip Markman, Jack Markman, Harry Pepper and Isaac Tapper for certain commissions which plaintiff allegedly earned as a result of a sale consummated by Pepper and Tapper as grantors to the Markmans as grantees in early 1970. The suit, while admittedly not based upon a written contract, involves also an alleged deliberate interference with contractual rights on the part of the Markmans, who allegedly caused Pepper and Tapper to fail to pay the commission to Gaitz, and the Markmans also…