Segerstrom v. Webb

This is an action to recover of defendants $23,775 as commission for bringing about the sale or merger of three abstract companies and a title insurance company of Minneapolis. When the parties rested the court directed a verdict for the defendants. The plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered pursuant to the directed verdict.

The trial court was of the opinion that there ivas evidence of a contract between the plaintiff and the defendants upon which plaintiff was entitled to go to the jury; but it held as a matter of law that the evidence fell short of proof that the plaintiff was the…