Legal Opinion

Gough v. Coffin

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided May 1, 1909PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Error from the County Court of Hill county. Tried below before Hon. H. J. Smith.

1Opinion of the Court

TALBOT, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the plaintiffs in error, L. Gough and C. G. Witherspoon, against the defendant in error, J. M. Coffin, to recover $606 commissions alleged to be due them for procuring, as the agents of defendant, a purchaser for a 2,424-acre tract of land owned by defendant situated in Deaf Smith County, Texas. Defendant pleaded a general demurrer, general denial, and that if plaintiffs ever made a contract for the sale of his land the same was not within the time nor upon the terms authorized by him. The case went to trial, a jury empaneled, and upon the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Adams v. TerrellTexas Supreme Court · 1908

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Best v. KelleyWashington Supreme Court · 1945
  2. Henderson Grant v. GilbertCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1914
  3. Webb v. HardingCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1913
  4. Quaile v. McArdleCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1951
  5. Robertson v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1911

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