First Land Brokerage Corporation v. Northern

This is an action by real estate brokers against landowners for the recovery of a real estate commission. The trial court sustained a motion for summary judgment on behalf of the landowners, and the brokers appeal.

The business dealing between these parties commenced in July, 1973, when one of the brokers contacted Roche to inquire about the possibility of listing a building and eight acres of land for sale. Northern and Roche were equal co-owners of the Mark I office building in Overland Park, Kansas, and they were the sole stockholders and corporate officers of a Kansas corporation which…