TURNER v. KELLY

No. 7749.

262 F.2d 207 (1958)

Curtis TURNER and Hugh Rakes, Appellants, v. B. W. KELLY and C. E. Holcomb, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Surface and T. D. Hobart, Jr., Roanoke, Va., for appellants.

Daniel H. Payne, Norfolk, Va. (Clifton A. Woodrum, Jr., Woodrum & Gregory, Roanoke, Va., W. M. Darden, Jr., Plymouth, N. C., and Wolcott, Wolcott & Payne, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and R. DORSEY WATKINS, District Judges.


PER CURIAM.

B. W. Kelly, an unlicensed real estate broker, and C. E. Holcomb, a sawmill operator, appellees, sued Curtis Turner and Hugh Rakes, loggers and promoters, appellants, on an oral contract for commissions arising from the introduction by appellees to appellants of a purchaser for timber land in the sale of which appellants had an interest. The jury brought in a verdict for appellees in the amount of $125,000, being ten per cent of the sale price of the land...

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