Hague v. Delong

Whitlock, Smith & Company, brokers in the city of Detroit, brought suit to collect a commission from defendants for securing a customer for the purchase of their stock in the American Broach & Machine Company. They alleged in their declaration that their dealings were with Francis J. Lapointe, who, besides being a large stockholder in the American Broach & Machine Company, also represented all the other stockholders, all of whom are defendants herein and who together owned the capital stock of the company. Plaintiffs claim that they were to receive a commission upon the sale of the capital…