Baehr-Shive Realty Co. v. Stoner-McCray System

Appellant’s first complaint is lodged against the action of the trial court in overruling its motion to direct a verdict, based on the ground that the evidence failed to show that the plaintiff was the inducing cause or procuring cause resulting in the leasing of the premises, that the prospective lessee produced by plaintiff was a certain person by the name of Elman, whereas the premises were leased to “Roosevelt Theater Corporation,” and that this brings the case within the rule announced in Murray v. Keenan, 191 Iowa 998, 183 N. W. 491, that where the lease was not made to the individual…