Leathers v. Canfield

This action is brought to recover a commission of $30,000, which plaintiff claims was agreed to be paid to him by defendant for plaintiff’s services as a broker in procuring the purchase by the Thayer Lumber Company from defendant of 10,000 acres of pine land situated in Missaukee and Kalkaska counties. Plaintiff’s claim is that in June, 1895, he met Mr. Munroe, superintendent of the Thayer Lumber Company, at Muskegon, and arranged with him to open negotiations with defendant for the purchase of this tract of timber, and in pursuance of which certain correspondence was had with defendant.…