Preston v. Postel

ESTES, District Judge.

The plaintiff in this case is a real estate agent or broker in Houston, and the defendants are the owners of a tract of land containing something more than 1,800 acres, located near that city, and referred to in the testimony as the “Deer Park tract.” *135As early as 1915 the plaintiff had been in communication with the defendants respecting the sale of the said property. On August 1st of that year he obtained an option for a period of 30 days to buy or sell the land, but nothing appears to have been accomplished by him at that time. No further communications passed until…