Latter & Blum, Inc. v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

PONDER, Justice.

Latter & Blum, Inc., a real estate firm domiciled in the City of New Orleans, brought suit against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the seller, and E. V. Richards, Jr., the purchaser of the Union Building in New Orleans, now known as the Richards Building, for the sum'of $48,-100 as a commission on the sale of the building by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to E. V. Richards, Jr., for the purchase price of $1,200,000.

The plaintiff seeks to recover from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, hereinafter referred to as Metropolitan, on the basis of a contract…