Hopkins v. Hinkley

The appellant sued the appellees, and declared in the six money counts; and in a seventh count set up a special verbal agreement between plaintiff and defendants, which is as follows: “that if he as the next friend of Bernard August Adolph Beck would unite with them in a proceeding in Baltimore County Court for the purpose of effecting a sale of certain property belonging to the estate of August Beck, deceased, and would perform all the services on his part that were necessary for the purpose of bringing about said sale, that they would pay him a sum equal to one-third of such commissions as…