Baker v. Brown

B. was the owner of lot 5, and a fractional part of lot 2, block 6, of the city of Pasadena, and through the agency of the defendant sold the same to P. for the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars. Thereafter, the defendant applied to P. to purchase said fractional portion of lot 2, but P. declined to sell any portion of the property unless he could sell the whole, *65but then and there proposed to the defendant that if he would find a purchaser for lot 5 for the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars, he would give to the defendant the remaining portion of the premises, to wit, said…