Beatty v. Russell

This case was originally instituted in the county court of Johnson county, by plaintiff, to recover a commission which he claimed due him from defendant, for effecting the sale of a piece of real estate for defendant, as his agent, and from a judgment there rendered was by appeal removed to the district court. The statement of the cause of action, in the petition filed in the district court, is as follows: “That there is due and owing to the plaintiff from the defendant the sum of $145 commission for selling land by the plaintiff for the defendant, at the defendant’s request, about December…