Parkey v. Lawrence

J. R. Parkey has appealed from a judgment rendered against him in favor of W. E. Lawrence, in a suit by the latter as plaintiff, to recover commissions which he alleged he had earned by finding a purchaser for an oil and gas lease on 12,000 acres of land owned by the defendant, pursuant to an employment of plaintiff by the defendant to negotiate such a sale.

The case was tried before the court without a jury, and the principal assignment of error presented here is the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to support the recovery awarded.

The evidence was sufficiefit to support the finding that…