McQuaig v. Gulf Naval Stores Co.

The declaration in three special counts alleges 'that the defendant, the Gulf Naval Stores Company, a corporation, agreed to and with the plaintiffs, Charles F. McQuaig and James L. Giles, that if plaintiffs would make a sale of a certain acreag-e of land owned by the defendant, for $2.00 per acre, defendant would allow the plaintiffs 10 per cent commission for said sale and also any excess price over $2.00 per acre that plaintiff should obtain for the land; that plaintiffs afterwards made a sale of the lands to a purchaser for the sum. of $2.25 per acre, and so informed defendant, yet…