Hale v. Brown

The plaintiff was C. H. Brown, and the defendant was J. Winston Hale.

The issues submitted to the jury were (a) whether the relation of subbroker- and broker existed between Brown and Hale, so that the former stood in the same relation to the latter as did Hale to the Fulenwiders, and (b) whether Hale, Pitts, and Brown were joint adventurers, and in that event plaintiff (Brown) could not recover of defendant (Hale), unless the latter had actually recovered the commissions from the Fulenwiders. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.

The plaintiff, as a witness, testified that he “was in…