DeFranceaux Realty Group, Inc. v. Leeth

Once again this Court is called on to settle a dispute involving the rights of real estate brokers to receive commissions. This case is an appeal from a judgment entered granting directed verdicts in favor of the defendant sellers.

Elizabeth Thomas Leeth and Howard Aldridge (sellers) employed two real estate brokers, Paul B. Ganley, Inc. and Frederick W. Berens Sales, Inc., now known as DeFranceaux Realty Group, Inc., (brokers) to sell farm land in Frederick County. The brokers procured a buyer, Urban Systems Development Corporation (purchaser), which was acceptable to the sellers. On July…