Combes v. Ayres

This suit was brought by ap-pellee, J. K-. Ayres, against appellant, S. M. Combes, to recover $525 alleged to be due him by Combes as a broker’s commission for procuring a purchaser for the timber situated on three tracts of land owned by Combes in San Jacinto county, Tex.

The plaintiff alleged that Combes had agreed with him that if he would procure a purchaser ready, willing, and able to purchase, and who would purchase said timber at $2.50 per thousand feet, Combes would pay plaintiff a commission of 5 per cent, of the purchase price therefor; that he was a timber estimater, and that after…