Upchurch v. Maynard

This was a suit on a quantum meruit by C. L. Up-church against T. A. Maynard and Gf. W. DeLaPerriere, to recover the reasonable value of the plaintiff’s services in procuring for them a sale to one Finney of certain corporate stock. There was no demurrer to the petition, and the case proceeded to trial. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence the court, on motion, granted a nonsuit, and the plaintiff excepted.

By way of inducement the plaintiff pleaded and introduced in evidence a writing in the form of a letter, by which the physical properties of Barrow County Cotton -Mills, located…