Stinde v. Blesch

The plaintiff is a real-estate agent in the city of St. Louis. He charges in his petition that the defendant, on or about the twenty-ninth day of December, 1887, employed him to sell certain real estate, which the defendant at that time owned ; that, as compensation for his services in negotiating a sale, if one should be made, the defendant agreed to pay him two- and one-half per cent, of the amount realized ; that, thereupon the plaintiff made efforts to sell the property, and that afterwards in February, 1888, he succeeded in. making or negotiating a sale thereof to one John Lumsden for…