Reese v. Harper

CROCKETT, Justice.

A. L. Reese sued Thomas R. Harper for $1,500 as a real estate commission for attempting to sell Harper’s farm. A jury made findings adverse to plaintiff, and judgment was entered accordingly, from which he appeals.

The problem of concern here is the nature and extent of the duty a real estate: agent owes to his principal, and whether plaintiff discharged it.

Mr. Reese is a licensed real estate broker, doing business as Atlas Realty Company in Logan, Utah. He contacted Mr. Harper and procured him to list for sale his dry farm of 700 acres in Hansel Valley in western Box Elder…