Gurley v. Phoenix Joint Stock Land Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for a real-estate dealer’s commission. Plaintiff prevailed, and defendant appeals.

It appears that in August, 1933, the defendant had acquired, through foreclosure, a ranch of 16,680 acres in Comanche county. Through one P. G. Holmes, managing officer of its real-estate department, it made an agreement with the plaintiff, a Salina real- . estate dealer, to pay him a specified commission to procure a buyer for the ranch at a price of $5 per acre. Plaintiff called upon one George C. Davis, who seems to have been a man of…