Hall v. Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.
California Court of Appeal
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in defendant’s favor in an action in which he seeks judgment for the reasonable value of services performed for defendant at its special instance and request in the matter of the sale of twenty airplanes to the Nationalist government of China.
In the summer of 1930 Captain W. B. Hall, the plaintiff, and Captain F. N. Shumaker were located in the neighborhood of Shanghai. Both were experienced aviators and both were in touch with certain officials of the Chinese government. Shumaker was in the brokerage business and acted as the representative of defendant in a…
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