Cocquyt v. Shower

Dependants in error recovered judgment in an action against the plaintiff • in error for a broker’s commission, alleged to have been earned by the sale of a ranch under a written contract of agency. The complaint set out the contract, which was dated August 19, 1916, and which authorized the- agent to sell a ranch at a price named, on a commission of five per cent. No time was named in the contract for the continuance of the agency. On the back of the contract was a memorandum of “44 head of cattle $2,000, 7 head of hogs $1,000, machinery, etc., $1,000, 25 *90hogs, some chickens, and crops on…