Gray v. Nations

* Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Appeal and Error, 4CJ, section 3013, p. 1031, n. 33; Brokers, 9CJ, section 130, p. 660, n. 67; p. 661, n. 69, 71; p. 663, n. 79; New Trial 46CJ, section 1, p. 59, n. 8. The case is an action to recover a broker's commission. The petition alleges that defendant employed plaintiff to procure a purchaser for a certain newspaper, its equipment and good will, then being published in Jefferson City, Missouri. The name of the newspaper was The Daily Post. That defendant agreed to pay plaintiff the sum of five per cent commission upon the gross amount of the selling…