Blake v. Austin

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

Appellees W. E. Austin, J. L. Ladd, A. P. Owens and F. A. Sears brought this suit against the appellant to recover the sum of $1500, alleged to be due them as their proportion of certain commissions received by appellant for the sale of a tract of 1500 acres of land in Matagorda County, purchased by M. D. Chillson fr,om T. E. Partain. Omitting the formal portions, plaintiffs’ petition is as follows:

“That on to wit, about the 10th day of April, 1902, plaintiffs brought to Matagorda County a man by the name of M. D. Chillson, who desired to purchase a large body of…