The owner of certain real estate of one hundred acres in extent placed the same in the hands of defendants with authority to sell it for him at the rate of $4,000 per acre; that thereafter defendants employed plaintiffs to find a purchaser at the rate of $4,250 per acre; that plaintiffs found parties who were ready and willing to purchase upon the terms mentioned; that thereafter an agreement was executed whereby defendants promised to pay plaintiffs a commission of $5,000; that thereafter the sale in question was consummated and the defendants received and accepted from the purchasers their share of the purchase money from such sale, amounting in money, notes and other property to more than $10,000. Held, that plaintiff was entitled to recover. Olsen v. Jordan, 38 Minn. 466, 38 N. W. 485; Warren Com. & Inv. Co. v. Hull, 120 Mo. App. 432, 96 S. W. 1038; Murphy v. Hiltbridle, 132 Iowa, 114, 109 N. W. 471; Prov. Trust Co. v. Darraugh, 168 Ind. 29, 78 N. E. 1030; Taylor v. Barbour, 90 Miss. 888, 44 S. 988.