Wells v. Hocking Valley Coal Co.

The petition alleges that the Hocking Coal Company, a coal mining corporation, entered .into an agreement with plaintiff, whereby the latter undertook the effort to find a purchaser for all of the property of every kind and character owned by said corporation, and, if successful, was to receive for the services so rendered a margin of the selling price in excess of a stated minimum or net sum to be paid to the company. This agreement, it is alleged, was in part written and in part oral. The written portion of said alleged contract is to be found in two instruments known in the record as “…