Dexter v. Campbell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover commissions on a sale of seven hundred shares in the American Hoop Dressing Company by the defendant to one Everett and others.
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Contract to recover commissions on a sale of seven hundred shares in the American Hoop Dressing Company by the defendant to one Everett and others. Trial in this court, without a jury, before Holmes, J., who found the following facts: The defendant was the inventor of a patented machine for making hoops, had formed a corporation, transferred the patent to it, and, at the time of the transactions in question, was the owner of over two thousand shares of its stock, of the par value of $100 a share. In March, 1882, the defendant employed the plaintiffs to find purchasers for four hundred shares.…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The judge who tried the case found that the defendant employed the plaintiffs to find purchasers for five hundred shares of stock, and agreed to pay them a commission of fifteen per cent on the sale; that the plaintiffs found purchasers to whom the defendant sold the five hundred shares; and that *201the plaintiffs are entitled to their commission. The only question presented is whether the ruling that certain facts set forth in the report did not prevent a recovery by the plaintiffs of commissions on five hundred shares was correct.
The fact that negotiations with Thomas were conducted through…
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