Peyser v. American Security & Trust Co.

GRONER, Associate Justice.

This was an action by appellant, as plaintiff, against American Seeuriiy & Trust Company (appellee), as defendant, to recover $87,500 claimed to be due as a commission for obtaining a purchaser for the property known as the Washington Post, which at the time belonged to the estate of John R. McLean, deceased.

The will of McLean provided that no sale of any of the newspaper properties belonging to him at the time of his death should be ma.de by his trustee until the same should first have been approved in writing by Francis T. Homer, if then living, or if he should…