Court Opinion

ID: 9849555
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:42:29.702062+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:17.621099
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McGIVERIN, Justice
(concurring specialty)-
I concur only in the result reached by the majority.
I would uphold the trial court judgment for defendants on the same basis the trial court relied upon. Plaintiffs evidence was insufficient to support a claim for quantum meruit recovery of a real estate sale commission.
However, as to the principles of law applicable to this case, I adhere to the views and authorities stated in my dissent in Milholin v. Vorhies, 320 N.W.2d 552, 556-57 (Iowa 1982). I believe a licensed real estate agent should have the same right as a lawyer, Wunschel Law Firm, P.C. v. Clabaugh, 291 N.W.2d 331, 337 (Iowa 1980), to seek recovery under a quantum meruit theory for his services rendered, if he is denied recovery under other principles of law. The majority is incorrect in ruling otherwise.
WOLLE, J., joins this special concurrence.