Woolley v. Wycoff

CROCKETT, Justice.

Defendant Milton S. Wycoff asked the plaintiff Robert P. Woolley, a licensed real estate broker, to procure a tenant for a ten-year lease on a certain warehouse in Salt Lake City. Plaintiff procured the tenant who was ready, willing and able to rent the property, but no lease was given because the defendant Wycoff failed to complete the purchase of the property which he was negotiating. Mr. Wycoff refused to pay the plaintiff for the services rendered, claiming that the contract by which he engaged Mr. Woolley to obtain the tenant was unenforceable because it was not in…