Brown v. Stokes

The petition in the instant ease unequivocally alleges: that the defendants employed the plaintiffs as real-estate dealers to sell for them a designated farm for $8,000 net to them, and agreed that the plaintiffs should receive for their services whatever sum in. excess of $8,000 they could obtain for the place; that the petitioners, acting under their contract of employment, secured a designated purchaser, who was able, ready, and willing to buy said farm for $8,400, and who actually agreed with the petitioners to purchase at that price; and that the defendants privately, and without the…