Murr v. Landrum

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This action was commenced by E. G. Murr and N. C. Matthews, as plaintiffs, to recover from defendant in error, as defendant, a real estate broker’s commission in the amount of $5,950, which plaintiffs alleged defendant owed them for procuring a purchaser for defendant’s ranch, under the terms of an oral contract. Before the case came to trial, one of the original plaintiffs, Matthews, was dismissed from the action upon Murr’s motion representing that he had assigned his interest in the contract to said movant. After Murr thus became the only plaintiff in the action, he…