Massie v. Chatom

This action was brought to enforce the payment of two promissory notes, each for four thousand dollars, which notes were given by defendant to plaintiff. Plaintiff is a real estate agent, and was the agent of defendant for the sale of the latter’s ranch. Defendant, a farmer and the owner of the ranch, entered into a written contract with plaintiff agreeing to pay him a commission for his services in “introducing a purchaser and effecting a sale” of defendant’s Lakeview Ranch. Plaintiff brought to defendant as intending purchasers Louis Bartlett and George J. G. Marsily. In conversation it…