Goodwin v. Gunter
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Goodwin sued Mrs. Gunter and having appealed from a judgment in favor of defendant, obtained writ of error from the Supreme Court on its affirmance (143 S. W., 664).
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The action was one for the recovery of commissions by Osce Goodwin, as plaintiff, growing out of the sale of a large tract of land belonging to Mrs. Gunter, the defendant.
The plaintiff, Goodwin, had a contract with Mrs. Gunter’s agent, Judge Don A. Bliss, by the terms of which he was to receive a commission of five per cent on the selling price of the land if he procured & purchaser at $35 per acre, with the privilege of buying it himself. During the life of this contract a sale of the land was made by Judge Bliss, acting for Mrs. Gunter, to Henry D. Lindsley at $30 per acre, in cash. Goodwin…
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