Dorgan v. Robert Oakman Land Co.

The plaintiff is a landscape architect. The defendant owns 920 acres of land bordering on Grand River and Warren avenues in Wayne county, adjacent to the city of Detroit. It desired to subdivide this land into a group of subdivisions to be known as the Aviation Field subdivisions. The plaintiff claims to have made a contract with the defendant to prepare general lay-out plans for subdividing the land at an agreed compensation of $5 per acre; that the plans were approved and used by the defendant in laying out the subdivisions; that the defendant then employed him to do certain work…