Colbert v. Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank

Mr. Judge Smedley,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

*238The nature of the suit and the result of the trial in district court are thus stated in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals :

“The plaintiff, T. R. Colbert, instituted this suit against the Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank, a corporation, to recover a broker’s commission for services alleged to have been rendered the defendant in the sale of 8,117 acres of land, known as the ‘R. V. Colbert ranch’ in Jones and Haskell Counties. The trial was before the court and jury and upon answers of the latter to special…