Sugar Field Oil Co. v. Carter

MOISE, Justice.

The plaintiff instituted this suit against the defendants to recover a commission of $25,000 for alleged services rendered in securing a purchaser for the properties owned by the defendant Carter; and for a preliminary injunction restraining the other named defendant, Frank L. Hereford, the trustee for the creditors of Carter, from disbursing the assets in his possession. The district court maintained defendants’ plea of prematurity, denied a preliminary injunction, and dismissed the suit. The plaintiff perfected appeals - devolutive from the refusal to grant the preliminary…