Shaver v. Consolidated Coal Co.

Litz, Judos:

The plaintiff, Clement L. Shaver, obtained a verdict and judgment for $251,853.85 against the defendant, The Consolidation Coal Company (plaintiff in error), for services rendered by him to the corporation as broker in effecting the lease of coal lands, owned by it, to J. A. Paisley “for and during the term of years necessary to excavate, mine and remove all of the coal in the leased premises.”

-The verdict and judgment is based upon an alleged oral agreement of January 18, 1923 (the day before the lease was executed), between C. W. Watson, as president of the defendant, and…