Bateman v. Richard

Opinion by

PINKHAM, C.

The defendants in eirror, Richard & Blake, a real estate firm, as plaintiffs, instituted this action against the plaintiff in error, F. A. Bateman, as defendant, to recover $3,000 alleged to be due as commission for the sale of certain land.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiffs’ petition alleged, in substance, that about March 1, 1919, the defendant listed a section of land with plaintiffs for sale “at the net price, of $32,000, said land to be sold by June 1, 1919, or the contract •.shall be at an end”.

Plaintiffs filed an amended…