Defendant employed plaintiff to negotiate with the owner of land for its purchase by defendant, at a price fixed by him. This plaintiff accomplished. In an action to recover for services rendered under such contract, it was argued that the contract, not being in writing, plaintiff could not recover under the statute of frauds (2 Gen. St. 1895, p. 1604, Sec. 10) declaring that no real estate agent shall be entitled to a commission for a sale or exchange of real estate, unless the authority for selling or exchanging the land is in writing. Held, that the employment of an agent to purchase land is not within the statute of frauds. Brown v. Winter, 77 A. 1021, 80 N. J. Law, 602, judg. aff., 82 A. 934, 82 N. J. Law, 729.