Martin v. Nelson

Appellants sued appellees for commissions on the sale of lands in Washington county, effected, as the evidence shows, without their instrumentality. As a consideration to support their claim to such commissions, appellants testified to a contract with appellee Nelson, at one time, and with appellee Lyon at another time, whereby appellants were to receive $50 for every man sent to Kansas by them with whom a land trade should be effected, and a certain commission on the sale of any land in Washington county, with or without the aid or intervention of appellants. On the other hand appellees…