Chase Realty Co. v. Dorel Co.
| Decision Date | 10 February 1969 |
| Docket Number | No. 53004,No. 1,53004,1 |
| Citation | 437 S.W.2d 65 |
| Parties | The CHASE REALTY COMPANY, Inc., a Missouri Corporation, Appellant, v. DOREL COMPANY, Inc., a Missouri Corporation, Earl Bumiller, Registered Agent, and Earl Bumiller and Doris Bumiller, Husband and Wife, Respondents |
| Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Louis Shifrin, Richard H. Ulrich, Shifrin, Treiman, Schermer & Susman, St. Louis, for plaintiff-appellant.
Edward C. Cody, Klutho & Cody, St. Louis, for defendants-respondents.
LAURANCE M. HYDE, Special Commissioner.
Plaintiff calls its petition 'a declaratory judgment suit in equity.' The petition asked 'a declaration of the rights of the parties in and to the contracts alleged.' Plaintiff alleged employment as broker to sell real estate and claimed to be entitled to a fee of $18,000.00 as a six per cent commission on an offered price of $300,000.00 for the fee simple title to property for which plaintiff claims it had an exclusive sales contract. Plaintiff now claims to be entitled to a commission of $12,000.00 for sale of a 99-year lease on the same property. Plaintiff claims to be entitled to one or the other, not both. The Court found plaintiff was not entitled to anything and entered judgment for defendants.
Defendants raise the issue of our jurisdiction, claiming there is no actual amount in controversy on this appeal in excess of $15,000.00, because plaintiff asserts conflicting claims. When we look at the 'Points Relied On' in plaintiff's brief we find, except for Point IV, and perhaps VII which has no reference to the amount involved they set out 'only abstract statements of law without showing how they are related to any action or ruling of the court.' See Civil Rule 83.05(e), V.A.M.R. Point IV is as follows:
'The exclusive sales contract contained two elements:
'a) The sale of the 99 year leasehold for $200,000.00, subject to the broker's commission.
'b) The sale of the fee simple title for $350,000.00 subject to the broker's commission.
There is no other point relied on in plaintiff's brief making a claim to any specific amount of commission or stating any definite transaction for which commission of more than $12,000.00 is claimed. Thus a claim for $12,000.00 for commission is the only live issue on this appeal. Concerning issues not briefed, we have ruled: 'And though timely raised in the trial court, if the constitutional question is not briefed nor urged nor relied upon in this court, it will be deemed abandoned, and, when our jurisdiction depends solely upon such question being involved, we will not retain jurisdiction, even where the case was properly sent here on appeal because of the appearance of such question in the record.' Ewing v. Kansas City, 350 Mo. 1071, 169 S.W.2d 897, 900, and cases cited; see also Heuer v. Ulmer, Mo.Sup., 273 S.W.2d 169; Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 1964, pp. 640--649 and cases cited.
An abstract statement in 'Points Relied On' now shown to be related to any action or ruling of the court 'is...
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