Scheurer v. Eichelberger

Plaintiffs brought this suit to recover a commission for the sale of defendant’s farm. The jury returned a verdict for $281 in favor, upon which judgment was rendered and defendant has appealed.

The amended petition, on which the case was tried, alleged that defendant on January 24, 1920, requested plaintiffs to sell or procure a purchaser for his farm, and agreed to pay a commission on the sale price thereof equal in amount to the usual and customary commission paid to real estate agents in Columbia, Missouri, for like services; that the usual and customary commission at that time was two and…