Mitchell v. Derby Oil Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to recover a broker’s commission for plaintiff’s services in obtaining an underwriting for a million dollars’ worth of bonds issued by the defendant corporation.

The principal facts giving rise to this lawsuit are as follows:

In 1921 the plaintiff, F. H. Mitchell, was engaged as a broker of oil stocks in Wichita. He had formerly been an organizer of syndicates for handling Canadian real estate, and a stock and bond dealer in New York. He had several years’ acquaintance with R. E. Wilsey & Company, a Chicago firm of…