Wilson v. Gibbs
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hancock District Court. — O. H. Kelley, Judge. Action at law upon an alleged contract by which the defendant undertook to pay the plaintiff a stipulated compensation for the production of a purchaser ready, willing and able to buy the defendant’s land. —
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
The plaintiff alleges that he is a real estate agent, and that defendant listed with him a farm of 280 acres for sale at $115 per acre net; that, on the following day, plaintiff found a purchaser for the property ready, willing and able to buy the same at $120 per acre on the terms prescribed by defendant, but defendant refused to make or complete the sale, and he therefore asks *493judgment for the recovery of his commission at the rate of $5 per acre. By an amendment to the petition, it is alleged that said agreement sued upon was partly in writing and partly oral, and that the written portion…
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- Consumers' Cotton-Oil Co. v. AshburnCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1897
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- Matheney, Beasley & Koon v. GodinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1908
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