Silvertooth v. Kelley

This is an action, tried by the court without the intervention of a jury, to recover the reasonable value of services alleged to have been rendered by plaintiff in procuring a purchaser for the stock of Horse Heaven Mines, Inc.

Plaintiff alleges that the defendant stockholders employed him to sell or procure a purchaser for all the stock in the above named corporation; that, pursuant to such employment, he did procure a purchaser who agreed to pay to defendants $200,000 for the stock owned by them; and that the reasonable value of his services is the sum of $10,000. The answering defendants,…