Plaintiff, a broker, wrote defendant asking what he would take for his land, including the stock and a five per cent. commission. Defendant replied that "$22,500, your commission $1,112.50; this amount will buy the place." Held, that the word "amount" referred to the total of the two sums mentioned by defendant; the word being defined by "Webster as "the sum total of two or more particular sums or quantities, as the amount of 7 and 9 is 16." Smith v. Fears (Tex. C. A. '09), 122 S. W. 433.