Drake v. De Witt

Plaintiff appeals from an order dissolving an attachment. The action in which such attachment was issued was brought to recover commissions earned by H. T. Drake, plaintiff’s assignor, under a written contract made in the state of Minnesota.

Under such contract said Drake agreed to take the St. Paul agency for the sale of California lands owned, controlled, or held under contract by defendant, H. G. De Witt, and under the terms of the agreement Drake was "entitled to the sole agency for St. Paul, Minnesota, while engaged in the sale of these lands.” Commissions were to be paid when a sale was…