Webb v. Harding

This is an appeal from a judgment in appellees’ favor in a suit for five per cent, commissions on the sale of approximately 90,000 acres of land owned by appellants to one R. B. Masterson, of which sale appellees alleged they were the efficient cause.

As we find the case, the controlling issue is whether appellees were the procuring —the efficient- — cause of the sale. It is in effect conceded that the evidence on this issue is conflicting. Appellants thus state it on page 3 of their brief herein: “The issues in this suit as to whether or not the plaintiffs were the procuring cause of the sale…