191 Iowa 795 | Iowa | 1920
“We will pay you a commission of $5.00 an acre if you make the sale; but the papers themselves would have to show the net amount of $145 an acre.”
Cotter, who had dealt in lands for more than 20 years, would infer from this that Gilman was owner! Exactly the contrary. In another letter, bearing date September 30, 1918, in response to a suggestion by Cotter that he had heard that the land was priced at $125 an acre, Gilman replied that this price was made some time ago; but that, “if the deal could be made a cash one, net to me, I could still swing it at that price. ’ ’ The suggestion that he “could still swing” the deal plainly intimates that the land belonged to another. No suggestion of ownership appears in the final negotiations, save that the price was made by Gilman “net to us.” Added to all this is the fact that the records of the county recorder and the auditor showed