Arizona Realtors, Inc. v. Lester
Arizona Realtors, Inc. v. Lester
Opinion of the Court
— The Arizona Realtors, Inc., a corporation, seeks by this action, filed August 16, 1922, to enforce specific performance of a contract and to recover damages for an alleged breach thereof, and judgment having' gone against it below it has brought the ease here for review.
Prank Lester and Annie Lester, defendants in the trial court, were the owners of several hundred lots situated in Monterey Addition to the City of Tucson, Arizona, and on August 15, 1921, they executed and delivered to appellant a contract giving it the exclusive right and privilege to sell these lots upon the terms and conditions therein mentioned. It appears from the complaint that the contract provided, among other things that appellant should sell the lots for the amounts specified therein, and that appellees would pay it a commission of twenty-five per cent of the purchase price of all or any of said lots sold during the term of the contract; that five per cent or more of the total consideration on each lot and not less than five per cent should be paid each month, and that appellant might deduct and retain on account of any commissions due it under the contract one-half of all payments made by the purchasers of lots .there
The answer admits the ownership of the lots and the execution of the contract but denies the other allegations. The trial, at which testimony in behalf of both parties was received, resulted in a judgment for defendants, and to reverse this appellant urges these
It is apparent that these assignments are too general and therefore insufficient. County of Pinal v. Heiner, 24 Ariz. 346, 209 Pac. 714; Charouleau v. Shields & Price, 9 Ariz. 73, 76 Pac. 821. However, no written notice of objection to them was served on appellant, hence the defeat is waived by appellees and will have to be overlooked by the court. Smith v. Arizona Engineering Co., 21 Ariz. 624, 193 Pac. 303; par. 1262, Civ. Code 1913.
But when one undertakes to examine the record to determine whether these assignments find support therein he is immediately confronted with the fact that there is nothing in it from which this may be ascertained. The abstract contains the pleadings, judgment, motion for new trial, minute entries, notice specifying papers, and the clerk’s certificate, but no part of the testimony, and there are found among the files no transcript of the reporter’s notes, statement of facts or bill of exceptions. A number of contracts evidencing the sale of lots to different purchasers were, it appears from appellant’s brief, introduced in evidence and marked as exhibits, but they are neither abstracted nor included in the papers filed in this court.
The ground of complaint, as we gather it from that portion of the record brought here, is that appellees terminated the contract at the end of the first year because appellant did not, they contended, sell during this period twenty per cent of the lots, whereas, the fact was, according to appellant, it had sold more than twenty per cent of them. To determine which contention was correct it was necessary to ascertain whether appellant had made a sale of
Such being the case this court cannot do otherwise than affirm the judgment. Such is the order.
ROSS and LYMAN, JJ., concur.
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- THE ARIZONA REALTORS, INC., a Corporation v. FRANK LESTER and ANNIE LESTER
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