Schebesta v. Stewart

' Charles J. Schebesta, as defendant, has appealed from a judgment rendered against him in favor of Z: G. Stewart, as plaintiff, for the sum of $10,150 for commission claimed by plaintiff as a broker in procuring a purchaser for a tract of 406 acres of land owned by the defendant and situated in Tarrant county about one mile southeast of Birdville.

The uncontroverted proof showed that the defendant employed the plaintiff to negotiate a sale of the land and agreed to pay him as commission all over and above $125 an acre that he should realize for the land; that the defendant sold the land for…