McClane v. Maurer

FLY, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by E. F. Maurer and T. W. Woodruff to recover damages in the sum of $17,707.50, alleged to have accrued by.reason of the breach of a certain contract under the terms of which a certain tract of land wag placed in the hands of plaintiffs by defendant for sale.' The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for appellees in the sum of $13,144.

The contract upon which the suit is based provided that appellees should have the right to sell 7000 acres of land owned by appellant in Karnes County, Texas, at a sum not less than $8 per acre for upland, and…