Hawks v. Moore

Moore sued Hawks, alleging that he had a written contract to sell a described tract of land belonging to Hawks, and that during the term of his agency he found a purchaser for the land “who was ready, able, and willing, and who actually offered to buy the land in question on the terms stipulated by the defendant;” that the defendant himself, during the term of the agency of the plaintiff, sold the land to others, and refused to pay plaintiff his commission. The defendant, in his plea, denied, that he ever signed any agency contract giving to the plaintiff the right to sell the land, and…