Johnson v. Edrington

This suit was instituted by appellant, D. P. Johnson, against appellee, O. A. Edring-ton, on an express verbal contract to recover broker’s commissions on the sale of a certain farm by the' Union Central Life Insurance Company to said Edrington. Appellee denied that he ever entered into such a contract with appellant, and further defended on the ground that such contract, if any, was wholly without consideration and inhibited by the statute of frauds; that appellant, without his knowledge or consent, was also acting at the time for and in behalf of said life insurance company; and that the…