Westbrook v. Times-Star Co.

The plaintiff brought this action to recover for services as a broker claimed to have been rendered in negotiations to bring about a merger between the owners of the Times-Star, on the one hand, and the Post and Telegram, on the other, newspapers published in Bridgeport. The suit was originally commenced against the Times-Star Company, a corporation which owned and published the Times-Star. Later, Henry D. Bradley, Harry S. Talmadge, Summer S. Simpson and Mortimer F. Judd, stockholders in the company were made codefendants. The claim of the plaintiff was that he undertook for the defendants,…