Willard v. Preston

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, as plaintiffs below, brought this action at law to recover compensation for services in negotiating the sale of certain capital stock of the Bankers Reserve Life Company of Omaha owned by appel-lees. Plaintiffs are members of the New York Stock Exchange and the defendants own more than 95 per cent, of the stock of the Bankers Reserve Life Company of Omaha.

We shall refer to the parties as they appeared below.

At the close of plaintiffs’ case, the court sustained the motion of defendants to direct a verdict in their favor, and from the judgment entered thereon…