Farrar v. Holt

The appellee instituted this suit to recover commissions in the sum of $277.77, alleged to have been earned by him for procuring a purchaser of appellant’s land. Appellee alleged, in substance, that appellant had listed his firm, consisting of 171 acres in Erath county, and agreed in writing that, if he should procure a purchaser, he (appellant) would pay to him, appel-lee, as commissions the said sum of $277.77. Appellee further alleged that a purchaser had been procured.

The appellant in answer to the petition pleaded, in substance, that the land for which the appellee was to negotiate a…