Conkling v. Krakauer

Stayton, Chief Justice.

The appellee employed the appellant, as a real estate broker, to sell certain lots which he claimed in the city of El Paso. The appellant succeeded in finding purchasers who were fully able to pay for the property, and with them the following written agreement was made:

*737December 11, 1882, received of J, H. Hampson and W„ F. Moore the sum of five hundred dollars, respectively two hundred and fifty dollars, on account of purchase of lots seventy two and seventy-three, block thirteen, as shown on Anson Mills’s map of El Paso, Texas, one hundred and twenty feet on San…