Kimery v. Shockley

This is an action brought by the appellees, real estate brokers, to recover a commission of $1,050 under an exclusive listing contract by which the appellants employed the appellees to sell certain property. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs.

The appellants concede that they would owe the commission if the property had been sold by the appellees or by any other broker, but they insist that under the particular wording of the contract they were entitled to sell the land themselves without liability to the brokers. The trouble with this argument is that the abbreviated record filed…