Mitchell v. Philippi

This is an action by respondent to recover compensation for his services in procuring a purchaser of all the capital stock of the Excelsior Tool & Machine Company, owned by appellant. In the trial court the respondent obtained a verdict for $10,000 and $4,080 interest, a total of $14,080, and a judgment was entered for that sum against the appellant. From that judgment the appellant has duly appealed to this court.

Appellant’s first assignment of error is that the trial court erred, in overruling his motion for a directed verdict at the close of all the evidence in the case. To decide this…