Blair v. Slosson

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by the appellee against the appellant for the recovery of $1600 upon quantum meruit as an agent’s commissions for the exchange of property owned by the appellant in the States of Kansas and Missouri for land situated in Brazoria County, Texas, then owned by one D. W. Wood. The appellant was a nonresident, and an attachment was sued out and levied on the Texas land for which the exchange had been made. The defenses pleaded were (1) that the original contract for the exchange of said property had never been carried out; (2) that appellee had acted…