Shields & Co., Inc. v. Green

DONALDSON, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff-appellant, Shields & Company, seeks to recover a real estate broker’s commission in the amount of $4,080, plus interest, on the basis of a listing agreement signed by defendant-respondent Dover Green and an earnest money agreement signed by both Dover Green and his wife Evelyn. After two previous mistrials, the case was tried to a jury. The trial court excluded from evidence both the listing agreement and the earnest money agreement — -the first because it violated the rules and regulations of the Idaho Real Estate Commission by not containing a proper…