Independent Linen Service Co. v. Sennett

The appellee sued the appellant on a contract by which the appellee agreed “to assist and direct the said company (the appellant) in the recovery of all monies illegally collected from it as sales tax by the . .' . State Tax Commission” for which the appellant agreed to pay the appellee “one-third of all amounts so recovered.” The evidence discloses that the appellee, pursuant to this contract, prepared a statement from data furnished him by the appellant of the taxes claimed by the appellant to have been illegally collected from it by the State Tax Commission, accompanied by a written…