C. B. Snyder Realty Co. v. Sherrill-Noonan, Inc., and York-Hoover Corporation and H. W. Stone

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

This case is essentially two cases by reason of the permissive counterclaim interposed by the defendant in the original action. Jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship.

I

In 1953 Sherrill-Noonan, a Pennsylvania corporation, defendant-appellant, owned some real estate in Exmore, Virginia, which it desired to sell. It engaged C. B. Snyder Realty Company, a New Jersey corporation and plaintiff-appellee, to find a buyer, agreeing to pay a 2% % commission on the sale price should a buyer be produced. Snyder presented a buyer to Sherrill-Noonan in New York to whom…