Ames v. Hegele

COMBS, Justice.

Appellants are the widow and children of J. W. Ames, deceased. Mr. Ames was a real estate broker in the city of Beaumont, and represented the appellee, Wm. E. Hegele, in that capacity in the following transaction:

On July 1, 1930, Hegele, being the owner of 150 acres of land in the Hezekiah Williams, Jr., survey in Jefferson county, entered into an agreement to sell it to H. W. Nelson, who wanted to purchase it for the purpose of building and operating a golf course on it. The consideration for the purchase was to be $150 cash and eleven vendor’s lien notes aggregating $75,000.…