delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant in error brought this action against plaintiff in error to recover $3500 commission on the sale of real estate, and a balance of $169.06 on an open account. Plaintiff in' error denied generally as to the commission, admitted as to the open account, and counter claimed for $2240 commission on sale of real estate alleged to be due him from defendant in error on a separate transaction. Defendant in error denied as to the counter claim. From verdict and judgment against plaintiff in error in the sum of $3452.51 this writ is prosecuted. The cause is now before us on an application for supersedeas. The parties are hereinafter designated as in the trial court.
' Twenty-seven alleged errors are assigned. Two proposition? only are seriously urged in- the briefs of counsel for
1. Plaintiff testifies to a contract between himself and defendant under the terms of which he was to receive a commission of $3500 for finding a purchaser for defendant’s 1750 acres of land at $30 per acre, which contract he fulfilled by producing one Bell who bought at that price. Defendant admits a contract with plaintiff for such a commission in the sum of $2500 for producing a cash purchaser, but asserts that he, and not the plaintiff, produced the purchaser Bell.
Defendant testifies to a contract for a commission for producing a purchaser for plaintiff’s 320 acres of land, said commission to be such sum over $20 per acre as the land sold for; that he did produce such a purchaser who bought at $27 per acre, whereby the sum of $2240 was earned. Plaintiff denies this' contract, but admits an offer to sell his land to defendant for $20 per acre, cash, which offer he says was never accepted, but merely met by defendant with a counter proposition of $18 per acre contingent upon defendant’s sale of his 1750 acres.
The law of this jurisdiction governing commissions on the sale of real estate is well settled and there are no substantial conflicts in the authorities. Many of the cases are cited in the briefs of counsel. We are in full accord
The evidence is in the same condition as to the counter claim and, though conflicting, the jury may well have determined therefrom that the contract alleged between the parties for the sale of plaintiff’s 320 acres never existed.
2. The pleadings and instructions alone present no justifiable basis for the sum returned in the verdict, but there was offered in evidence a communication from plaintiff to defendant, under date of November 3, 1920, plaintiff’s purported statement of account with a five per cent credit of commission on this transaction, in the sum of $432, which plaintiff explained by saying that although there was no contract therefor he had in fact sold his land to customers whom defendant had brought from the State of Iowa, had failed to interest in property of his own, and thereafter introduced to plaintiff; that by reason of these facts he had then considered it an act of simple justice to make such an
We are thus forced to the conclusion that the verdict before us is supported by the evidence and cannot be disturbed.
Hallack, et al. v. Stockdale, et al., 14 Colo. 198, 23 Pac. 340.
Aside from the matters already considered this record doubtless discloses a few minor errors, none of which, however, could in our opinion be held prejudicial. The supersedeas is accordingly denied and the judgment affirmed.
Mr. Justice Teller sitting for Mr. Chief Justice Scott, and Mr. Justice Bailey concur.