Tinsley v. Scott

Appellees brought this action before a justice of the peace to recover commissions, as real estate brokers, on the sale of appellant’s farm. On appeal to the County Court there was a trial by jury, a verdict for plaintiff, a motion for a new trial denied and judgment on the verdict for $80 and costs, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.

Early in June, 1895, appellant, then a practicing physician in Champaign, who a few months afterward removed to Canton, Mississippi, called at appellee’s office and placed in their hands for sale his farm of eighty acres near Bond-ville. The price given…