Ragsdale v. Smith

Jordan, Judge.

The judgment under review in this case is the grant by the trial court of the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in an action brought by the plaintiff for the recovery of a real estate commission.

The facts adduced in support of and in objection to the motion disclosed that in 1954 the defendant owned a farm in DeKalb County containing more than 600 acres of land and that on August 21, 1954, the plaintiff, a licensed real estate broker, and the defendant executed in writing an “exclusive sales agency contract” with respect to this property. This contract provided in part as…