BANKS v. CAROLINE REALTY COMPANY

No. 3501.

331 S.W.2d 946 (1960)

M. Allen BANKS, Appellant, v. CAROLINE REALTY COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

Rehearing Denied February 19, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sterrett & Haemmel, Houston, for appellant.

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, for appellee.


GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

M. Allen Banks sued Caroline Realty Company for a commission for negotiating a lease of real estate owned by the defendant for a period of ten years. Plaintiff alleged an oral contract for the payment of a real estate dealer's commission. The court sustained the defendant's exception to the effect that Article 6573a, Section 28, prohibited the recovery in any court of this state of a commission for the negotiation of said lease because the...

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