Green v. Booth
Green v. Booth
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
We do not think that appellant was entitled to a peremptory instruction; and, since the only assignment of error is based on this right, we notice no other feature of the record. The suit of appellee to recover commissions for effecting the sale of the property mentioned in the pleadings is not based on the option contract, wherein appellee is given the right to buy the property for -the sum of $6,000 cash, or $6,500, one-half cash and the balance in two equal annual payments, with eight per cent interest, but on an oral contract to pay five per cent commissions for effecting the sale of the property. These two contracts are wholly independent of each other, and to allow proof of the oral contract to pay five per cent commissions for effecting the sale of the property in no way affects the written
Affirmed.
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- Aaron B. Green v. Roswell V. Booth
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- Contracts. Brokers. -Land sales. Options. Commissions. Evidence. A landowner may contract in writing, giving a broker the option to purchase a tract of land for a specified sum within a limited period, and at the same time bind himself by an independent verbal contract to pay the broker commissions for a sale of the land during the period to some other purchaser; and where commissions are sued for under such contract testimony of the oral agreement is not objectionable as varying the terms of the written contract.