Nickerson v. Spindell

There was evidence to show that the plaintiff performed the services and incurred the expenses set out in his declaration, in superintending the building of a steamer for the defendants and others who were the owners of her, and that he did this at the request of the defendant Spindell, who was the managing agent of the owners.

It is contended that there can be no recovery, inasmuch as the plaintiff was one of the signers of the agreement under which the steamer was built. But this was merely an agreement on the part of each of the subscribers to it to take a share in the enterprise, and to…