Crane v. Whittemore

This is an action to recover an amount of money which the plaintiffs claim is due them from the defendant Waterman for their services, as brokers, in procuring for him a purchaser for 1,000 barrels of pork. The petition alleges that plaintiffs were employed for that purpose ; sets out that there was an agreement to pay them one-half of one per cent on the price value of the pork; that the plaintiffs, after finding one Buckland as such purchaser, brought the two parties together, and that Buckland was accepted by Waterman. The answer, after denying plaintiffs’ aver-ments, sets up that the…