Gore v. Griffith Realty Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Reversing.

On October 23, 1911, Annie Gore entered into a contract with J. W. Griffith and H. C. Newsome, doing business as the Griffith Realty 'Company, by the terms of which she granted to the company the exclusive right to sell a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Daviess County at the price of $11,200, and agreed to pay the realty company four per cent of the sale price as compensation for finding a purchaser therefor.

Appellees made efforts to find a purchaser for the farm, and among others showed it to one F. E. Birk, who owned and lived on an…