Cerf v. McElroy

This suit was originally filed in the district court of Tarrant county, Tex., Forty-Eighth judicial district, by M. D. Cerf, George H. Anderson, Andrew G. Ilseng, and Edgar G. Banta, against John T. McElroy. The plaintiffs alleged in their first amended petition that they were engaged in the business of procuring purchasers for and making sales of mineral lands and oil and gas properties, and that the defendant, John T. McElroy, the owner of certain valuable oil and ranch properties, prior to October 22,192ts, and subsequent to July 1, 1926, authorized them to sell his properties for the sum’…