Corbett-Arthur Inv. Co. v. Blair

HIGGINS, Justice.

E. A. Corbett and C. A. Arthur, real estate brokers composing the firm of Corbett-Arthur Investment Company, brought this suit against Wiley Blair to recover a commission for effecting the sale of 113,000 acres of ranch land in New Mexico owned by Blair and sold to W. T. Waggoner, trustee of the W. T. Waggoner estate, on June 25, 1931.

The jury found:(1) That plaintiffs were not the procuring cause of the sale; (2) that plaintiffs did not, on or about June 18, 1931, abandon their contract of employment to sell defendant’s ranch to the W. T. Waggoner estate; (3) that the…