Kaye v. Coughlin

WALTER, Associate Justice.

Seymour Kaye has appealed from a judgment denying him a recovery of a commission on the sale of real estate. Kaye had “an exclusive right to sell” as distinguished from an “exclusive agent to sell” contract for the sale of a house and lot in Dallas with the owner Gilbert H. Coughlin. Baker v. Skipworth, 244 S.W.2d 299 (Tex.Civ.App.1951, writ ref.). The listing contract was dated July 19th, 1966. It gave Kaye the exclusive right to sell the property for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of the contract. It contained the further provision that:

“If the said…