Sheehan v. Hepburn

Marvel, Vice Chancellor:

In August 1956, plaintiff and defendant became acquainted through the offices of a mutual friend, Daniel A. Mealey, the funeral director. Thereupon the present litigants entered into discussions looking towards the possibility of working together in defendant’s business of selling caskets. Plaintiff, while employed at the time in an executive sales position for a producer of steel products, was looking for an opening in another business with prospects, and defendant because of ill health was purportedly on the look-out for an associate to assist him as a full time…