Prewitt v. Witts

This is a suit wherein plaintiff seeks to recover a real estate broker's commission. The petition alleges that plaintiff entered into a contract whereby defendant agreed to pay plaintiff, upon the sale of about eighty-eight acres of her land in Jackson County, Missouri, a commission of five per cent of the sale price; that pursuant to said contract plaintiff procured purchasers of said property and defendant accepted said purchasers so procured by the plaintiff and defendant sold said land to the purchasers so procured for $42,923.80, and the plaintiff was the procuring cause of the sale.…