Legal Opinion
Holton v. Shepard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 11, 1935PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is an action of contract to recover a broker’s commission in connection with the sale in 1928 of the Shepard stores, so called, owned and conducted by the defendant in Boston and Providence. The declaration consists of three counts. It is alleged in the first count that there was an agreement between the parties that, if the plaintiff should produce a customer to whom the defendant should ultimately make or cause to be made a sale of the Shepard stores, or the capital stock of the corporations owning and operating these stores, upon terms satisfactory to the defendant, the latter would…
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