Jameson v. Coldwell

This is an action brought by plaintiffs H. M. Jameson and A. F. Johns, to recover from George L. Coldwell the sum of two thousand and three hundred dollars as commissions for the alleged sale of four million feet of lumber for the defendant at Los Angeles, California, upon his written agreement to pay them two and one half per cent of all sums received on account of said sales. They allege that they negotiated the sale of said lumber prior to and on the first day of March, 1888, with the Western Lumber Company, at the schedule of prices of the Pacific Pine Lumber Company of San Francisco,…