Branstetter v. Hook

In a commission suit instituted by Thomas F. Branstetter against W. H. Hook, plaintiff alleged that the defendant promised to pay him $5 per acre for finding a purchaser for 353 acres of land and that the service was performed by procuring one Toney Colle to enter into a contract of purchase with defendant. The defendant, following a general denial, specially answered: That the contract was not concluded because the purchaser was not financially able; that the defendant was induced to enter into the contract by the false and fraudulent representations of the plaintiff as to the purchaser's…