Wallace v. Johnson

J. J. Johnson and S.W. Dykes filed this suit against Carol M. Wallace to recover commissions alleged to be due them for the sale of real estate owned by the defendant and listed with them for sale at $17.50 per acre, or such price less than that amount as was acceptable to the owner. The defendant answered by general denial and specially pleaded that the sale was effected by another agent by the name of McWhorter. The trial was before the court and jury, and upon answer to special issues a judgment was rendered for the plaintiff. The recovery was on the quantum meruit theory, which was duly…