Delta & Pine Land Co. v. Wallace
Mississippi Supreme Court
PROM the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. HoN. RobeRT Powell, Judge. Wallace, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Delta and Pine Land Company, appellant, was defendant there. Erom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, defendant appealed to the supreme court. Wallace, the plaintiff, claimed the right to recover commissions from the defendant, predicated of a verbal contract made with him by.
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PROM the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. HoN. RobeRT Powell, Judge. Wallace, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Delta and Pine Land Company, appellant, was defendant there. Erom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, defendant appealed to the supreme court. Wallace, the plaintiff, claimed the right to recover commissions from the defendant, predicated of a verbal contract made with him by. Watson, a superior officer of defendant, on December 3, 1898, at Beauvoir. This contract was denied by Watson, and was the principal point litigated in the case. By the terms of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Whiteteli), C. T.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
■ The jury must have believed the following to be the facts: That Wallace had a contract, made on December 3, 1898, at Beauvoir, with Mr. Watson, acting for the Delta & Pine Lumber Company, by which he was to be paid 50 cents an acre for *673selling the lands embraced in the declaration (some 16,000 acres) ; that Mr. Watson had agreed in August, 1898, to give him said commission for selling some 31,000 acres; that at the interview at Beauvoir he had agreed to give him this commission of 50 cents an acre for selling a quantity of land equal to…
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