In an action for commissions earned on a sale of land it appeared that plaintiff procured a purchaser who entered into a contract to buy, plaintiff notified the owner thereof by telegram the following day, the owner had listed his land with another broker, who secured from a third person a written contract to buy a part of the land. Held, that unless the owner received the telegram before signing the contract of sale with the third person, plaintiff could not recover commissions. Johnson Bros. v. Wright, 124 Iowa, 61, 99 N. W. 103; Weisele-Gerhart R. E. Co. v. Wainright, 127 Mo. App. 514, 105 S. W. 1096.