McMillin v. Beves
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
The action was brought to recover commissions alleged to have been earned by the plaintiff as a broker in procuring the sale of certain corporate bonds. The principal assignments of error are based upon the refusal of the trial judge to direct a verdict for the defendants.
The jury were authorized to find the following facts: Early in January; 1901, the defendants requested plaintiff to find a purchaser for $215,000 mortgage bonds of a traction company operating certain street railroads in Oshkosh, Wis., and to offer them at a specified price with a certain amount of the…
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