Rogers-Hill & Co. v. San Antonio Hotel Co.

Rogers-Hill & Co. a copartnership, brought this suit against San Antonio Hotel Company, a corporation, to recover the sum of $70,000 as brokers’ commission for procuring a purchaser for the Gunter Hotel property in the person of T. B. Baker. The plaintiffs alleged an express contract with the corporation through its president, L. J. I-Iart, to pay a commission of 5 per cent, in the event of their procuring a purchaser for the property, and in the alternative that the corporation and its stockholders, after having full notice that they, the brokers, had procured Baker as a prospective…