Amott, Baker & Co. v. Bing

This is a motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The theory of the action is that defendants employed plaintiff, a broker in the employ of the prospective purchaser, to obtain an acceptance of an offer by defendants to sell stock in a corporation, and that defendants thereafter refused to consummate the transaction, although plaintiff procured a purchaser, ready, able, and willing to buy the stock on defendants’ terms, within the period fixed in defendants’ offer. Plaintiff sues for the commission it alleges it would have received from the prospective purchaser but for…