Slusher v. Moore

*15Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

The Evans Coal Company owned a lease upon a mine in Whitley county and was engaged in its operation. Its manager, J. L. Slusher, who also owned one-third of its capital stock, resided at Jellieo, Tenn. W. L. Moore was a prosperous real estate broker living at Williamsburg, Ky. On the morning of October 18, 1917, without any previous arrangement, these gentlemen had a conversation at the railroad station at Williamsburg in which they agreed that Moore might sell the property of that company so as to secure for it the sum of $10,000.00, and for…