Stacy v. Browne

Opinion by

ESTES. C.

Parties will be referred to as they appear in the court below. Plaintiff, Browne, sued defendant, Stacy, in justice of the peace court, alleging that the latter was his agent for the sale of certain real estate; that Stacy sold the same for $300 but accounted to plaintiff for only $100; that he concealed the value of said land and what it could be sold for and defrauded Browne in the sum of $200. Stacy admitted the sale, and that he remitted only $100, and retained the $200, but denied that he was ever the agent of Browne to sell such land, and alleged that no compensation…