Court Opinion

ID: 9664451
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Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:19:08.610136+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:06.429478
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Mr. Justice Culver
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Petitioner urges that we failed to pass expressly upon his contention that respondent could not have had an exclusive agency to sell the property because it had been previously listed with another agent.
Petitioner based his motion for summary judgment on three grounds: (1) the contract failed to identify the land or furnish the means by which it might be identified so as to comply with our Real Estate Dealers License Act, [Article 6573a, Sec. 28] ; (2) the agreement failed to give the respondent-plaintiff the exclusive right to sell the property; (3) that the agreement reveals on its face that the plaintiff would become entitled to a commission only in the event it was the producing cause of the sale.
*618By pleading and affidavit respondent admitted that at the time of the execution of the agreement the petitioner made known to respondent that he had previously given to another an exclusive agency contract for the sale of the property, but that he felt sure that listing had expired. While fact issues associated with this admission may arise upon the trial of this iqase, it cannot be said of itself as a matter of law to negative respondent’s claim of an exclusive agency. Petitioner’s argument seems to be that the agreement with respondent did not constitute an exclusive agency because the petitioner had already listed the property exclusively with another agent. While in a sense this might be correct, it would not necessarily prevent recovery by respondent, if the parties had entered into that kind of agreement. It is to be remembered that the only ultimate issue presented here is the correctness of the summary judgment granted to petitioner by the trial court.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion delivered March 6, 1957.