Day v. Amburgey

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

— Reversing on the First Appeal and Affirming on the Second Appeal.

On May 5, 1908, the appellee, R. H. Amburgey, employed the appellant, Kelly J. Day, as his agent to buy from W. E. & H. C. Grinstead a tract of 331 acrés of land in Knott county. Amburgey authorized Day to pay the Grinsteads $500.00 for the land, and agreed to give Day $100.00 for his services as agent. In June of the same year Day bought the land from the Grinsteads for $300.00; paid for it with his own money, and had the land conveyed to' G.'M. Adams, who, by agreement, was to hold it for…