Sargent v. Wekenman

DOERNER, Commissioner.

This is an action for a real estate broker’s fee claimed to have been earned by producing a proposed lessee of defendants’ property. Verdict and judgment below was for plaintiff for $6,000, from which defendants appealed.

Defendants were the owners of a lot located on the northeast corner of Olive Street and Warson Roads, in Creve Coeur, Missouri. They employed plaintiff as their exclusive agent to lease their property by executing a written listing agreement dated July 1, 1959, which was to remain in force for six months from that date. Shortly after it expired,…