Gitlin v. Stone

OPINION

MANSFIELD, District Judge.

By ex parte application pursuant to Rule 64 F.R.Civ.P., the plaintiff, a New York resident, procured the issuance of a warrant of attachment in the sum of $200,000 in this diversity suit for services as a literary agent against the defendants, who are residents of California. Count I seeks an accounting of sums to be received by the defendants under a contract with Doubleday which is alleged to have resulted from plaintiff’s efforts pursuant to an agreement by the defendants to pay him 10% of amounts received by them from Doubleday. Count II asserts a quantum,…