Razer v. Brown

Defendant appeals from ’ a judgment condemning him in the sum of $19,-*1009500 for commissions alleged to have been earned by plaintiff in effecting a sale of certain plantations, under an oral contract entered into some time in the month of August, 1919.

Defendant was the owner of Gossippia, Ingleside, and Semple plantations, in the parish of East Carroll. On October 23, 1919, he sold these properties to John M. Countiss. The purchase price was $170,000, represented by cash and notes of the vendee. Plaintiff .avers that he was the procuring cause of the sale under oral employment by defendant…