Floyd

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment rendered in favor of defendant. The complaint contains two causes of action. The first is laid on a one-year promissory note bearing date October 19, 1915, for the sum of two thousand dollars, with interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum and for attorneys’ fees should suit be necessary to enforce collection. The second cause is based on an agreement in writing executed September 30, 1915, by defendant’s agent and general manager, Mrs. C. A. Lovell, by the terms of which said defendant bound itself to pay the plaintiff the sum of two thousand dollars as a commission for services rendered in promoting an exchange of real properties owned by defendant corporation and one Dr. E. D. Stoddard, respectively. Said causes of action sprang from the same real estate'transaction.

Defendant corporation was organized September 23, 1912. Mrs. C. A. Lovell, who appears in her business transactions as C. A. Lovell, is the mother of Edward J. Fleischer and Mrs. Gertrude K. Hurley. The son and daughter were the owners of several parcels of land situate in the counties of Los Angeles and Orange. To suit a family, or other purpose, not apparent,…