Case ID: ga-app_142/html/0620-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

53536.
    KING-WILLIAMS REALTY & MORTGAGE, INC. v. STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
    Submitted February 28, 1977
    Decided June 23, 1977.
    
      Stuhler & Miller, Gregory E. Stuhler, for appellant.
    
      Thompson & Bonner, Harold B. Thompson, for appellee.
   Smith, Judge.

King-Williams Realty & Mortgage, Inc., appellant, brought suit against State Farm Life Insurance Co. to recover a real estate broker’s commission allegedly earned when State Farm sold an apartment complex it owned. State Farm’s pre-trial motion for a summary judgment was denied but after King-Williams’ first witness testified, State Farm moved for judgment in its favor which was granted in the form of a directed verdict. State Farm’s motion, although treated by the court as a motion for directed verdict, was tantamount to a renewed motion for summary judgment. No material issues of fact remained after the president of King-Williams testified that his firm never had any direct contact with the party who bought the apartment complex. It conclusively appearing that King-Williams was not the procuring cause of the sale, a summary judgment in State Farm’s behalf was then proper. Code § 4-213; Parrish v. Ragsdale Realty Co., 135 Ga. App. 491 (218 SE2d 164).

Judgment affirmed.

Bell, C. J., and Marshall, J., concur.