Howell v. North

This is an action to determine whether the plaintiff should recover a judgment based upon defendant’s alleged promise by letter to pay a commission for the finding of a purchaser for real estate sold in Colorado. The defendant at Hastings, Nebraska, wrote a letter to the assignor of the plaintiff at Lincoln, Nebraska, describing the land, which is near Akron, Colorado, and stating the terms of sale and price, and that he was willing to “allow’ a fair commission out of this.” When the case was presented in the district court, the defendant called the attention of the court to the demurrer…