Haskell v. Merrill

The appellee, Merrill, a broker, sued the appellants, C. N. Haskell and the Seventy-Seven Oil Company, an Oklahoma corporation, to recover commissions alleged to be due him. The substance pi his original •petition is: That he was a broker, engaged •in selling and exchanging real estate and oil and gas leases for commissions. That J. I. Staley of Wichita Falls, listed with him certain oil property in Wichita .county, Tex., described and set out in the petition, agreeing on the 15th day of September, 1919,. to pay him a commission.of $175,000. That the plaintiff immediately undertook to sell…