Southern Alkali Corp. v. Dismukes

This action was brought by B. W. Dismukes against Southern Alkali Corporation to recover a real estate broker's commission for procuring for the corporation a mineral interest in a certain tract of land owned by one Breckenridge, and situated in Nueces county. Dismukes recovered, in a jury trial, and the corporation has appealed.

The jury found, among other things, that appellant, through its agent, S. Maston Nixon, employed appellee to secure all the gas royalty and the unleased portion of said land, and that the efforts of appellee were "a procuring cause" of the purchase and sale of said…