Strain v. Gayden

The appellee, W. J. Gayden, as plaintiff, filed a suit in the circuit court of Leflore County -against appellant, D. E. Strain, defendant, and in his declaration he set out that the appellant owned certain lands in Leflore County, and that in April 1943, he employed appellee to sell the same at the price of $125 per acre, and for his services in so doing appellee was to receive a commission of five per cent on the total sale price. This was a verbal contract. It is alleged that thereafter appellant contracted a prospective purchaser, took him upon appellant’s lands and. showed the same to…