Shaw v. United Cape Cod Cranberry Co.

By this bill the plaintiffs, husband and wife, seek an accounting by the defendant of sums claimed to be due from the defendant to the plaintiffs in accordance with a sealed contract entered into between the parties under date of November 17, 1939. By amendment with the consent of the defendant there was added a claim for a “commission” or, as otherwise expressed, for “the fair value of . . . services” alleged to be due to the husband or to the husband and wife jointly for procuring a purchaser for the “Starr” bog, owned by the defendant. This last mentioned claim has been treated by both…