A contract which ran for one year, provided that if plaintiff, a real estate broker, effected a sale of defendant's property, he was to receive a certain commission, and in case a sale was made without his aid, or the property was withdrawn from sale, one-half such commission. Held, that a lease by defendant for five years, with the exclusive privilege to the lessee of purchasing at a fixed price, at any time before the expiration of the lease, was a sale within the meaning of the contract entitling plaintiff to one-half the commissions. Rucker v. Hall, 105 Cal. 425, 38 P. 962.