Youngman v. Miller

Plaintiff sues to recover two thousand dollars as a broker's commission on the alleged sale of defendants' mine.

The petition, in substance, charged that the defendants were the owners of a coal mine known as the "Ruby Mine;" that on the 4th day of June, 1917, plaintiff entered into a verbal contract with defendants, whereby defendants agreed that if plaintiff would procure a purchaser for said "Ruby Mine" that they, the defendants, would pay the plaintiff all that said "Ruby Mine" sold for over and above the sum of forty thousand dollars; that thereafter plaintiff secured a purchaser for said…