Dreisback v. Rollins
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Brown District Court. John V. Rollins brought suit against Benjamin M. Dreisback, to recover the sum of $100 for commission due to the plaintiff from the defendant for procuring a purchaser for defendant’s farm.
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Error from, Brown District Court. John V. Rollins brought suit against Benjamin M. Dreisback, to recover the sum of $100 for commission due to the plaintiff from the defendant for procuring a purchaser for defendant’s farm. It is alleged that a verbal agreement was entered into between the parties about the 24th day of December, 1884, under which Rollins agreed to find a purchaser for a farm of two hundred acres situated in Brown county, for which Dreisback was to pay the sum of $100. It is averred that on^February 21, 1885, Rollins advertised the farm in the Brown County World, and continued…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
The testimony in regard to the terms of the agreement made between the parties is conflicting, but the findings of the jury have disposed of this conflict, and settled the dispute in favor of Rollins; and therefore a discussion of the testimony is needless. The jury found that the extent of the agreement was that Rollins should procure a purchaser for Dreisback’s farm, at the fixed compensation of $100. In pursuance of this agreement, Rollins caused an advertisement of the land to be published in the Brown County World for a considerable…
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