Burchfield v. Markham

GANNON, Justice.

This is a suit by E. L. Markham, Jr., a licensed attorney of the Dallas Bar, joined by Larry Gibbard, a licensed real estate dealer, against R. O. Burchfield, individually, and W. G. Burchfield & Bro., a real estate brokerage partnership composed of W. G. Burchfield, R. O. Burchfield and R. H. Burchfield, to recover one-half of a real estate commission paid the defendant partnership as brokerage for the sale of a deep water plant site to Heyden Chemical Corporation. Each of the members of the defendant partnership is a licensed real estate dealer.

After a trial before a jury…