Ramsdell

This is an appeal from a judgment for $700 broker’s commissions for procuring a customer, ready, willing, and able to purchase real property situated in Butte County, upon the terms specified. April 5, 1926, the appellant signed an exclusive ten-day contract to pay respondent five per cent commissions for the sale of lots 18 and 19 of Gridley Tract Number 5, situated in Butte County, for the sum of $14,000, upon the following terms: “$6900.00 down and the balance secured by mortgage and contract for five years to pay $1600.00 a year, with interest at 6 per cent per annum until paid. . . . Evidence of title to be in the form of certificate of title issued by a responsible Title Company to be furnished and paid for by the seller.” The following day the respondent took Mrs. Ollie Osborne, a prospective purchaser who resided at Live Oak, to inspect the property, where she met the appellant on his ranch near Gridley. She was entirely satisfied with the property, and agreed to purchase it upon the terms specified, paying the respondent $500 to bind the bargain. April 13, 1926, the respondent, who also lived in Live Oak, within a few miles of Gridley, wrote the appellant at Gridley…