Hooper v. William P. Laytham Sons Co., Inc.

There are two suits before the court involving the same parties. Both were filed before process was served in either and the two have been heard together.

In one, Henry Y. Hooper and Robert E. Byrne, trading as the Hooper Byrne Company, sue the Laytham corporation, which operates a foundry, praying for an accounting and payment of commissions at the rate of five per cent. on all business done by the foundry with certain named customers which they introduced to the foundry corporation. The suit is limited to business done since 1936. It is based upon an alleged contract as set forth in the…