West Virginia Supreme Court April 20, 1920 (Sutherland v. Guthrie)

Ritz, Judge:

On the 17th of April, 1917, the defendant W. M. Guthrie executed to the plaintiffs a writing constituting them his exclusive agents for the period of forty days for the purpose of mating sale of a tract of land owned by Mm, containing a little more than sixteen acres, 'at the price of one thousand dollars per acre,, agreeing therein to pay said agents a commission of five per centum