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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hixson finds the trial court properly entered summary judgment in favor of the car wash owner in this dispute over the sale of several car washes. A settlement agreement was executed by the parties to resolve disputes arising from the seller’s creation of additional companies to effectuate the sale. The purchaser paid himself a $100,000 commission for the project’s closure and withheld this amount from the sale price plus six month’s wages for the seller’s hiring of two of the purchaser’s employees. No party agreed in writing to pay a broker’s commission pursuant to the settlement agreement. The second amended counterclaim alleging contract breach and the third-party complaint contain new and relevant allegations and evidence and the trial court’s dismissal is reversed. Affirmed in part. Reversed in part and remanded.