Court Opinion

ID: 9829936
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:44:28.189697+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:30.928348
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We have been unable to interpret the evidence in this case as does the able counsel *605for appellee. As we understand tlie rule, before an agent is entitled to commissions lie must find a purchaser, both able and willing to buy or sell, as the case may be, upon the specific terms offered. We think the evidence undoubtedly raised the issue that the owners of the stock when first approached by appel-lee, Cooper, declined to sell .upon the specific terms offered. They attached the condition that appellant pay the costs of the suit then pending in the district court. This, in effect, was a rejection of the terms offered by plaintiff, and in legal effect was a counter proposition which appellant had the full right to reject, and which the evidence tends to show he did reject, thus ending the effect of both the proposition and counter proposition, the same as if neither had ever been made. Appellant, Cox, further testified to the effect that he did not renew the proposition nor authorize appellee, Cooper, to renew it, but, on the contrary, that he distinctly informed ap-pellee that the entire proposition was abandoned and he would not purchase, and that appellee agreed to this conclusion. It is true that appellee Cooper’s testimony was of a contrary effect, but in determining whether or not the court should have submitted to the jury appellant’s defense, his testimony and that in his behalf is alone to be considered; it being the function of the jury to determine the conflicts in the evidence. The court failed to submit appellant’s defense to the jury, and while we do not wish to be understood as approving the particular form of appellant’s requested instructions, we do think they were sufficient to call the court’s attention to the duty imposed upon him by the statute to submit proper issues and charges on the issues raised by the pleadings and evidence.
The motion for rehearing will accordingly be overruled.