Stanley v. Beckham
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United. States for the District of Colorado.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by John T. Stanley to recover from James .11. Beckham the reasonable value of services alleged to have been rendered by the former at the latter’s request in certain preliminary negotiations resulting in his purchase of the wholesale grocery business of N. B. McCreary & Co., of Denver, Colo. The verdict and judgment were for the defendant, and the plaintiff prosecutes this writ of error.
One of the issues presented by the pleadings was whether, after the rendition of the services in question, the plaintiff had accepted, as full compensation…
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