Bossart v. Erie Coal Mining Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

Bossart, a real estate broker, was employed by the Erie Coal Mining Company to make sale of one of its *65properties located in Butler County. On August 27, 1919, this contract was confirmed by a letter of a duly authorized officer of the defendant, as follows: “In line with my conversation with you this morning, we will be glad to give you the privilege of selling our mine located at Euclid on the Bessemer Railroad, and should you interest anybody within the next ninety days, we will be glad to allow you five per cent of the selling price of eighty-five thousand…