Defendant B., with whom G. had listed land for sale, learning that plaintiff desired to purchase it, requested to be permitted to make the sale, and informed plaintiff that he had G. bound to sell the land for $2.50 per acre cheaper than G. would sell it to plaintiff. Plaintiff authorized B. to offer G. the amount he asked for the land, less $72 interest on the land, if it could not be bought for less, B. agreeing not to close the trade with any other parties until plaintiff could buy the property at G.'s price. B. informed plaintiff that G. refused to take less than $2,850 and the $72 interest, and that the offer at that price would be kept open until the next day; but, pending the negotiations, B. and the two other defendants purchased the land for themselves, to plaintiff's damage. Held, that a petition alleging such facts was not defective as alleging a contract between plaintiff and B., which was invalid as a violation of B.'s duty to G. Bass v. Talbert (Tex. Civ. App. '08), 112 S. W. 1077.