Shook v. Parton

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is a brokerage suit in which appel-lee, W. L. Parton, a licensed realtor, filed suit against appellant, E. F. Shook, to recover $960 as a five per cent commission on $19,200, alleged to be due by virtue of appellee’s efforts in procuring a purchaser for 320 acres of land sold by appellant to Fred Weigman on September 27, 1947. The action was founded upon a series of letters that passed between the parties, which appellee contends constitutes a memorandum of a promise or agreement in writing sufficient to comply with the provisions of Article 6573a, Vernon’s Annotated…