Thibodeaux v. Dudley Downing & Associates

REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of his claim for a share in his former employer’s commission on the sale of a house whose listing plaintiff had obtained. We reverse.

Plaintiff had left defendant’s employ to establish his own brokerage firm, which actually sold the house and received half of the commission. The trial judge reasoned that on forming his own brokerage plaintiff created a relationship adverse to his former employer’s interest, and that allowing a former employee to recover both the listing agent’s 25% and the selling broker’s full 50% of the commission would…