JAMES, J.
This case concerns the applicability of Washington's real estate-business opportunity brokers statute, RCW 18.85, to the sale of a controlling stock interest in a corporation.
Defendant Thomas Coad owned stock in two closely held Snohomish County newspaper corporations, a majority interest in one and a minority interest in the other. In 1973, Coad and plaintiff Nicholas Schmitt agreed that Schmitt would attempt to find a buyer for all of the capital...
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