Mohr v. Rickgauer

Calkins, C.

This was an action upon a promissory note. The evidence tended to show that the defendant employed the plaintiff as broker to sell 480 acres of land, and orally agreed to pay him as commission for such services the sum of $1' an acre; that, after plaintiff performed such contract on his part, a dispute arose as to the amount which the plaintiff was entitled to receive, and to settle such controversy the defendant executed the note in question for the sum of .$200. The court below took the view that an oral contract to pay plaintiff a commission being unenforceable because of the…