Brown Paper Mill Co. v. Irvin

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, R. H. Irvin, brought this action against the Brown Paper Mill Company, Inc., the appellant, upon the claim that he was the procuring cause of a contract for the purchase by it from J. L. Williams & Sons Lumber Company of 53,363.27 acres of Arkansas timber land, dated November 14, 1940, and that, under an oral agreement made with the appellant in 1937, he was entitled to a commission of twenty-five cents an acre. The appellant denied that Irvin was the procuring cause of the contract and that it had agreed to pay him a commission upon the purchase of the…