Canaday v. Brainard

Southerland, C. J.:

This is a suit for brokers’ commissions. It concerns the activities of two industrial brokers, Samuel Vance, Jr. and Millar Brainard, in attempting to effect a sale of the interest of Ward M. Canady, the defendant, in Willys-Overland Motors, Inc.

(Brainard died before the suit was brought.)

The plaintiffs asserted that Vance and Brainard were employed by Canaday to find a purchaser for Canaday’s holdings upon an understanding, either expressed or implied, that Canaday would pay them if successful; that Brainard did find such a purchaser in the ICaiser-Frazer Company; that the…