Legal Opinion
Lack v. Borsum
District Court, W.D. Louisiana
Decided March 10, 1942No. Civil Action No. 464PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAWKINS, District Judge.
■Basing jurisdiction on the ground of diverse citizenship, plaintiff sues for commissions alleged to have been earned under the following circumstances:
He was employed by defendant as a broker to sell a mineral lease on lands in Louisiana. The agreement, made in the “San Jacinto Hotel in Houston, Texas”, was to sell the lease to Superior Oil Company for the sum of $300,000 “payable in cash or in oil, if, as, and when produced”, for a commission of one-sixth of the purchase price. Immediately thereafter, plaintiff took the matter up with the “officers of the Superior…
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