Court Opinion

ID: 9601161
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:38:05.273394+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:00:23.407885
License: Public Domain

*270Fatzer, J.,
dissenting: I cannot agree to the court’s affirmance of the judgment. In my opinion the evidence is wholly insufficient to support the district court’s finding “that there was a bona fide offer for a ready, able and willing purchaser to purchase the property upon price and terms agreeable to both the seller (defendants) and buyer (Mrs. Roberton).”
The uncontradicted evidence in this case shows that Mrs. Roberton, the purchaser, made her one and only offer to purchase this property on October 10, 1962, after the plaintiff’s listing expired on October 7, 1962. The defendants accepted that offer and the preliminary contract was executed on October 11, in the office of another broker, and the sale of the property was consummated on October 17, 1962. It is clear from the plaintiff’s letter to the defendants, written after his listing of the property had expired, that he had been unable to obtain a qualified buyer and could riot get the defendants’ property sold. In that letter the plaintiff listed the names of various persons to whom he had shown the property, but the name of Mrs. Roberton was not one of those persons. It is clear he was not entitled to a real estate commission.