Thomas M. Dieterle v. C. M. (Bill) Gatton, Eldred Neubauer, William R. Jagoe, Iii, Wells T. Lovett, and Frank Hartz

WEICK, Chief Judge.

The action in the District Court was to recover for breach of contract for services, with a quantum meruit count. The plaintiff is a business consultant, doing economic and marketing studies, including studies for national banks and savings and loans.

Plaintiff’s claim was that defendants engaged him to aid and assist them in procuring approval by the Comptroller of Currency of a charter for a new national bank in Owensboro, Kentucky; that he agreed, among other things, to make a full economic study of said city to prove the need for such bank in the locality and to prepare…