Capps v. Georgia Pacific Corporation

(Pro Tempore).

The plaintiff’s complaint alleged that plaintiff and defendant agreed that the plaintiff would attempt to *250find a lessee for industrial property owned by the defendant, that plaintiff did find a lessee with whom defendant made a 20-year lease of the property at a total rental of $3,040,000, that the defendant therefore owed plaintiff a commission of five per cent plus one half of the first month’s rent, or $157,000, and that the defendant paid $5,000 to plaintiff and owed the remaining $152,000, for which judgment was demanded.

The defendant’s answer consisted of a general denial…