Cloud v. Burnett

Gater employed Streeter to sell Gater’s Canadian land. Streeter took up with Burnett the matter of finding some Iowa land to trade for the Canada land. Burnett approached Treichler, who owned a piece of cheap Iowa land. Treiehler refused to take any prop-erty in trade, but gave Burnett a price of $13,000 on his Iowa land. Burnett says that that price carried with it a commission to him. Treichler and his son deny that anything was said about commission. Burnett and Streeter took Gater to see the Iowa land, and grossly misrepresented it, and priced it at $28,000 on a trade for the Canada land…