Kadane v. Clark

Plaintiff, C. W. Clark, instituted this suit against defendants, George E. Kadane, Jack Kadane, Mike E. Kadane, Edwin G. Kadane, Charles Kadane, Fred A. Kadane and Big Six Oil Company, a corporation, for $20,000, as commissions, and in the alternative for the reasonable value of his services rendered, in procuring a purchaser from defendants of an oil and gas leasehold interest in 200 acres of land in Wichita County, Texas.

Plaintiff alleged that he was a geologist by profession and had acquired a valuable knowledge of the formations which rendered defendants' property valuable. That he had…