Case ID: sw_226/html/0423-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PIONEER LAND & LOAN CO. OF MARTIN COUNTY v. EBERSOL.
    (No. 1147.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. El Paso.
    Dec. 9, 1920.)
    Appeal and error <&wkey;IOIO(l) — Finding supported by evidence not disturbed, though appellate court might reach different conclusion.
    Whether a broker suing for commissions was the efficient procuring cause of a sale was a question for determination by the trial court; and, where its findings are supported by evidence, they cannot be disturbed, though the Court of Civil Appeals might reach a different conclusion.
    Appeal from District Court, Martin County ; Chas. Gibbs, Judge.
    Action by the Pioneer Land & Loan Company of Martin County, Tex., against Charles Ebersol. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Morrison & Morrison, of Big Springs, for appellant.
    Garrard & Baker, of Midland, for appellee.
   HARPER, C. J.

Appellants brought this suit against appellee for $538.92, commissions for procuring a purchaser of stock of merchandise belonging to appellee, as agents. Tried before the court without a jury. Judgment for defendant.

The court found as a fact that the plaintiffs were not the efficient procuring cause of the sale. .The assignments of error are simply attacks upon the findings of the trial judge. We find that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the findings and judgment, and for that reason the cause is affirmed. This was a question for determination by the trial court. Ford v. Cole et al., 195 S. W. 661; Bancroft v. Emerson et ah, 194 S. W. 991. Where, as in this case, there is evidence to support the findings of the trial court, this court is without power to disturb it. Am. Surety Co. v. Hardwick, 186 S. W. 804. This is true though this court might reach a different conclusion. Marse & Co. v. Flockinger, 189 S. W. 1017.

The assignments are overruled, and cause affirmed. 
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