Hague v. Delong

This is a suit at law in which plaintiffs, a brokerage firm and copartnership formerly doing business under the name of Whitlock, Smith Company, seek to recover from defendants certain commissions claimed to be due them for arranging the sale of all of the capital stock of the American Broach Machine Company, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to the Sundstrand Machine Tool Company, of Rockford, Illinois. Suit was begun August 10, 1936, but was dismissed in May, 1937, on the ground plaintiffs were violating the statute of frauds by seeking to recover a commission on a parol contract involving the sale…