Blake v. Perrin
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action by Howell C. Perrin against Anna M. U. Blake, as executrix. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. The action was commenced Iw the service of a summons, on January 20, 1915, in the Supreme Court, Westchester county, state of New York. It was removed to the United States DisLrict Court for the Southern District of New York on March 16, 1915.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
This action is brought to recover for services which the plaintiff alleges that he rendered to the defendant at his request as a broker in procuring a purchaser for him of certain machinery. The allegation is that he was to sell certain rifling machinery with capacity of 20 rifle barrels per day, drop forgings for making small parts of rifles, stock patterns, etc., which if put into an established shotgun plant would be able to turn out 20 completed rifles per day, together with patents for the sum of $50,000, and that defendant promised to pay the plaintiff a commission…
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