Seward v. M. Seward & Son Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the receiver of the defendant company, and by others, from an order of the Superior Court in New Haven County, Webb, J., in receivership proceedings, allowing in full a claim of Albert Widman for $2,500 as a commission for securing a purchaser of the real estate and plant of the defendant company in the hands of the receiver.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This appeal is taken from an order of the Superior Court allowing the claim of Widman for $2,500 for a broker's commission on a sale of the plant of the M. Seward and Son Company in the hands of a receiver of said court.
Four questions are raised: Whether the finding should be corrected. Whether the paragraphs of the draft-finding should be marked proven or not proven. Whether the conclusion of the trial court that the claimant was the procuring cause of the sale, can be supported either as a conclusion of law or of fact. And whether the claimant, if entitled to a commission, should have been…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. North River Sugar Refining Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Hoadley v. Savings BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Schlegal v. AllertonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
- Duncan v. KearneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
- Williams v. ClowesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
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