Browder v. Hughes

KEITH, Justice.

Plaintiffs below appeal from an adverse judgment entered after a bench trial wherein they sought to recover commissions they claimed to be due upon a note arising from a real estate brokerage contract.

Ed and Maggie Hughes owned approximately 211 acres of land upon Lake Conroe in Montgomery County. Plaintiffs were real estate brokers who entered into an arrangement with the defendant Harry E. Hughes, son of Ed and Maggie, whereby plaintiffs would obtain a purchaser of the land. The price agreed upon was $5,000 per acre net to the sellers, the brokers to receive as their…