Hoyt v. Buder

On January 4, 1921, plaintiff sued the defendant, Leo R. Buder, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis for $20,167.50, with interest from September 27, 1919, for his commission for procuring and assisting in procuring for the defendant purchasers for a tract of timber land in Dunklin County, containing 13,445 acres, belonging to the Arcadia Timber Company. The case was tried to a jury, a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff on October 31, 1924, in the sum of $26,332.03, and from a judgment thereon the defendant appealed.

The first count of the amended petition declares upon an express…