Ruiz v. Kiehm's Pharmacy

This is a suit by a real estate agent for a commission alleged to be due as the result of a sale by the defendant partnership of a "drugstore" formerly owned and operated by it and which had been listed for sale with the plaintiff real estate agent. Plaintiff also claims attorney's fees as stipulated in the contract.

Defendants excepted to the petition on the ground that the contract with the agent was not signed in the name of the partnership but by one of the individual members in his own name. When this exception and another exception of vagueness were overruled, defendants answered,…