Circelli v. Braunstein

LAYTON, District Judge.

The plaintiff is a business and industrial broker maintaining an office in Philadelphia. He conducts his business everywhere. In May 1956, he alleges that he was authorized by the defendant to sell defendant’s business. This was a ladies’ dress business consisting of five stores operating in the Wilmington area. There was no real estate included in the sale, merely the inventory, good will, accounts receivable, etc. The defendant, it is stated, told the plaintiff that the sale would be consummated by way of a sale of all of the capital stock of the defendant’s…