Pine Building Co. v. Grossman

The complainant is engaged in building homes for the owners of real estate and financing the construction thereof. It entered into a contract with the defendant, under the terms of which the latter was to secure contracts for such work and was to receive one-quarter of the profits upon all such contracts so obtained by him and stand one-quarter of the losses, if any, that should grow out of such contracts. There was provision for periodical accounting and some other details, of no moment for present purposes.

Subsequent misunderstandings and disputes led to a termination of the contract by the…