Brandt v. Munz

In the spring of 1924 defendant owned the site of the Grand Riviera Theatre in Detroit. He and others intended to put up a theatre building on the site to be owned by a corporation to be organized.

Plaintiff is an architect. Being so requested, he made plot plans or drawings which were used in a proceeding to vacate an alley. Then he, being so requested, made preliminary sketches and drawings of a theatre building. Several weeks later, and after a number of conferences, and when the preliminary sketches or drawings were nearly if not quite completed, defendant told plaintiff to stop all work…