Sanders v. Stewart

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Sometime in the spring of 1977 Larry Stewart responded to an advertisement by James E. Sanders, Jr., a self-styled business broker and consultant, relative to the sale, by and through the broker, of a small grocery store located in Chestnut Mountain and known as Chestnut Mountain Shopette. The store was owned by one Alfred Hewett who leased the real property from another. During the process of negotiations the First National *811Bank of DeKalb County foreclosed on the store, and Hewett went into bankruptcy.

Eventually, a sale was consummated with Stewart in which the…