Mims v. Reid
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the'Western District of Virginia, at Harrisonburg; Henry Clay McDowell, Judge. Action at law by John, W. Mims against Degh W. Reid. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The writ, executed on September 16, 1920, summoned the defendant, a citizen of Pennsylvania, to answer the plaintiff, a citizen of West Virginia, of a plea of trespass on the case. The declaration was for trespass on the case in assumpsit, setting out first the common counts in assumpsit and then specially a contract by defendant to pay plaintiff reasonable compensation for his services in procuring a purchaser for a tract of land, the procuring of the purchaser at the price of $100,000, and debt of the defendant to the plaintiff of $10,000 as reasonable compensation. The…
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