Whitelock v. Beach

Plaintiffs, Whitelock & Gregory, real estate agents, and defendant had a contract wherein the former were engaged to sell the latter’s farm in Adair county at eighty dollars per acre, for which they were to receive two dollars per acre as their commission for making a sale. Their agency was limited to three months. It appears that one Johnson became interested with Whitelock & Gregory in an effort to make a sale and he is made a party plaintiff.

Finally, after the time limited in the contract had expired, a sale or exchange was made to Gelbach, the latter putting in his farm and paying…