Welch v. Gammage

SHANNON, Justice.

This appeal concerns the right vel non of Gerald Glenn Gammage, a real estate salesman, to a payment in the nature of a commission from the sale of a 4.37-acre tract of land in Travis County.

Appellee, Gammage, sued appellant, Barney D. Welch, in the district court of Travis County for $8,905 as a commission and for attorney’s fees. After trial to a jury, judgment was entered for Gammage for $11,-904.

In his trial petition Gammage declared that before September 14, 1973, he and Welch came to an understanding concerning the opening of a real estate office to be known as…