Guenther v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

This action was brought by plaintiff to recover the sum of $6,825 from defendant as payment for services rendered in securing a mortgage loan for defendant. It is alleged in the complaint that in the summer of 1939, defendant, through two loan supervisors of its company, agreed to pay plaintiff commissions for securing mortgage loans for the defendant. The amount of the commission was to be one per cent of the first, one hundred thousand dollars of the loan and one half of one per cent in excess of that amount.

During the years 1940, 1941, and 1942, plaintiff secured for defendant about twelve…