Southern Alkali Corp. v. Dismukes

SMITH, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by B. W. Dis-mukes against Southern Alkali Corporation to recover a real estate broker’s commission for procuring for the corporation a mineral interest in a certain tract of land owned by one Breckenridge, and situated in Nueces county. Dismukes recovered, in a jury trial, and the corporation has appealed.

The jury found, among other things, that appellant, through its agent, S. Mas-ton Nixon, employed appellee to secure all the gas royalty and the unleased portion of said land, and that the efforts of appellee were “a procuring cause” of the…