Reese v. Texas Co.

The complaint herein asserted a cause of action for the reasonable value of two items of services alleged to have been rendered by plaintiff’s assignor, one Constantin I. Chadinoff, to the defendant at the latter’s special instance and request between September 1, 1930, and March, 1932. The case was submitted to the jury as if the two items were separate causes of action, i. e., (1) a claim for the value of Chadinoff’s services in connection with the acquisition by defendant of stock control of a French corporation known as Raffineries de Petrole de la Gironde S. A. (hereinafter referred to…