In an action for commissions for effecting a sale of land, the petition alleged that the land was placed in plaintiffs' hands by a written contract of sale at the price of $50,000, and that they were to receive ten per cent. commission on the amount realized by the defendant, to be paid when the purchase price was received, whether the land was sold directly or through the organization of a stock company and the money value of the lands realized by a sale of the stock; that a mining company was organized to which defendant conveyed the land, receiving practically all of the stock of the company, the par value of which was $150,000, that defendant had received $100,000 from the sale of the stock, on Which amount plaintiffs were entitled to commissions. Held, that plaintiffs were not entitled to show that after selling 300 shares of stock at 33 1/3 cents on the dollar, and having a purchaser ready to buy all the stock at that figure, defendant raised the price to forty cents, the action not being for damages for breach of contract, but proceeding on the theory of an actual sale. Cos-grove v. Leonard Mer. & Realty Co., 175 Mo. 100, 74 S. W. 986.