Brown v. Lee

George Bose Smith, Justice.

In 1965 H. Dean Brown, a housebuilder, constructed a residence for W. J. Davis and his wife for a contract price of $20,192700. Thereafter Carl Lee, a real estate broker, brought this suit against Brown for $1,000.00, asserting that Lee had found the Davis job for Brown under an oral agreement by which Brown was to pay Lee a 5 per cent commission, upon any building contracts that Lee might obtain for Brown. Brown denied the existence of the oral agreement. That issue of fact was settled by the jury’s verdict in favor of Lee, for $333.33. (That the amount of the…