Greer v. Parks

Plaintiff Allie Greer was proprietor of a gas station near Birmingham, Michigan. He owned six small houses and at various times had acquired stock in corporations, including 1,030 shares of stock in the Packard Motor Car Company. Because he had the highest regard for the father-in-law of defendant Henry B. Parks, and also because Parks was connected with a Detroit bank, he used Parks’s services in selling the 1,030 shares of Packard Motor Car Company’s stock. Parks stopped periodically at Greer’s station to purchase gas. Greer first asked Parks to dispose of 130 shares. This was done and the…