Trinity Gravel Co. v. Cranke

NICKELS, J. J.

P. Cranke sued Dan S. Harston and four other persons, who, it was alleged, composed a partnership, or unincorporated association, styled Trinity Gravel Company (the alleged association being made a party, defendant also), and sought judgment in the sum of $3,875, with interest, as his broker’s commission of 5 per cen-tum, earned in connection with the alleged sale of 471 acres of “gravel land” by defendants to the Harston Sand & Gravel Company, a corporation. The pleading and proof show that this corporation was promoted and organized late in 1922, or the first part of 1923, for…