Powell v. Mulder
Powell v. Mulder
Opinion of the Court
Appellant, Powell, sued appellee, Mulder, to recover commissions for the sale of certain real estate owned by ap-pellee which was sold to one McAtee for $7,700.
The defendant, Mulder, answered by general demurrer and alleged that no sale was made by said P.owell; that said sale was made by himself, and that, if said land was ever listed with appellant by appellee, ap-pellee made the sale long after he (Mulder) had taken it out of appellant’s hands, and after he had told appellant to have nothing more to do with it; that there was no contract made between Powell and Mulder that appellant should find a purchaser of the land. In the state of the record as we find it, no other verdict and judgment, it seems, could have been rendered than was rendered. There is no bill of exception or objection taken to the charge of the court, and all objections thereto must be regarded as having been waived. The charge given by the court, however, presented no reversible error.
“A broker has no right to enforce the payment of a commission unless he has a contract, express or implied, by which the seller is obligated to make such payment. The mere fact that a broker is the procuring cause of a sale being made does not, as a. matter of law, determine the question of liability on the part of the seller.” Goode v. Sears, 226 S. W. 463; Dunn v. Price, 87 Tex. 319, 28 S. W. 681.
There is no reversible error shown, and under the evidence the charge is correct, and the judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.
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