Legal Opinion
Worrell v. Baldwin Chain & Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 6, 1916PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover a commission on the investment by one Wheeler of $10,000 in the *356treasury stock of the defendant corporation. The issue submitted to the jury was, whether the plaintiff was the procuring cause of the sale, and a verdict was returned for the defendant. In the course of the trial one Gates, the treasurer of the defendant, was asked: “When you went up to see Mr. Wheeler to sell him this $10,000 worth of stock at his second investment, was anything said by you to him, or by him to you, about Mr. Worrell?” The witness answered, “There was not.” The case…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Jennings v. RooneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Hobart v. County of PlymouthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Berrenberg v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
- Burns v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Higgins v. AndrewsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Leonard v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Boston Food Products Co. v. Wilson & Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Doherty v. Phoenix InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Freedman v. LipmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Cucchiara v. SettinoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
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