Greve

The plaintiff began this action to recover of and from the defendants, and especially from the Taft Realty Company, the sum of $6,266.50, based upon an instrument in writing which is in the words and figures following, to wit:

The defendant had judgment and the plaintiff appeals.

The complaint alleges that the writing just referred to was made and executed on the sixth day of June, 1923, whereby it was agreed to pay the plaintiff commissions as provided in said writing as a consideration to the plaintiff for procuring and delivering to the Taft Realty Company an agreement covering a tract known as the “Greve Tract,” at the southwest intersection of Pico Boulevard and Preiiss Road, desig nated as Tract No. 6800, by the terms of which it was agreed and provided that the Taft Realty Company should subdivide and sell said tract for an agreed compensation of fifteen per cent of the amount of all sales made in said tract; that under said agreement the Taft Realty Company had proceeded to sell lots in the tract referred to to the value of $328,765, upon which it had received commissions in the sum of fifteen per cent. It further alleged that the company had not paid to the plaintiff…