Schleier v. Bonella

Defendant in error was plaintiff in an action against the plaintiffs in error for a brokerage commission on the sale of real estate, and had judgment. The defendants below bring the case here on error, and ask that the writ be made a supersedeas.

The complaint alleged that the defendants employed the plaintiff to find a purchaser for eighty acres of land owned by them; that they agreed with the plaintiff that, if he would find a purchaser, they would pay him all that should be received for said land above $200 an acre; that he found such purchaser to whom the property was sold for $215 an…