Crown Central Petroleum Corp. v. Bates

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This suit was brought in the district court of Harris county, Tex., to recover an alleged commission for the sale of certain real property. It was removed to the court below upon the ground of diverse citizenship.

Plaintiff, appellee, claimed to have been employed by the president of the defendant company, acting under a special resolution of the board of directors, to sell said property. The property was sold through the efforts of plaintiff, and the principal defenses, after denial of the fact of employment, were: First, that the president had no authority to so…