Winkler v. Cox

POPE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment on an instructed verdict awarding a real estate commission to a licensed realtor and essentially presents two points: (1) whether the realtor should have proved that he was the procuring cause for the sale in a suit upon the contract in which the seller agreed to pay the agent five per cent “for services rendered,” and (2) whether -a layman’s testimony, when his unexpert qualifications were neither objected to nor questioned, was sufficient to prove the reasonableness of attorney’s fees.

By written contract, appellant, F. M. Winkler, agreed to…