Jones v. Hall

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.-:

This was an action by plaintiffs for a real-estate dealer’s commission on the sale and barter of defendant’s farm.

Defendant listed his farm with plaintiffs on an agreement that if they effected a sale or trade of it at a valuation of $10,000 he would pay them the usual commission of 5 and 2½ per cent, which would be $275.

Plaintiffs discovered a Miss Hilton who had a property in Wichita which she would exchange for the farm. Defendant was willing to trade his farm for the Hilton property. Plaintiffs got .the woman to agree to the exchange…