Delahunt v. Thuener

Plaintiff, on January 20, 1923, sued the defendant in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, for $20,000, as alleged in the petition, on a quantum meruit for services rendered at defendant's request in finding and introducing a purchaser for the corporate assets of the Sanitol Chemical Laboratories Company of St. Louis. At the trial on December 3, 1924, the court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff's evidence; plaintiff suffered an involuntary nonsuit with leave, and appealed.

The petition alleges that the said Sanitol Company was, on November 20, 1921, a corporation engaged in…