Danciger v. Wood

Appellees, W. A. Wood and A. W. Major, brought this suit against appellant, M. O. Danciger, to receive a commission for procuring the execution of a contract between Danciger and the Gould Oil Company, by the terms of which said Oil Company agreed to drill a well on a certain lease owned by Danciger. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendant employed them to procure such. a contract, and agreed to pay them for such service $1,000 in cash and $2,500 out of the first oil produced from said land; that they did procure such a contract with the said Gould Oil Company, but that the defendant…