Miller v. Stevens

This case was commenced in justice’s court and appealed from there by defendant to the *628circuit court of Kent county where on re-trial plaintiff recovered a judgment of $300 for his services in procuring for defendant a purchaser of a business called the Parisian Dye House located on South Division street in the city of Grand Rapids. Upon the trial defendant’s counsel timely moved and requested the court for a directed verdict in his behalf on the ground that the testimony showed plaintiff assumed to act during the transaction in the capacity of a “business chance broker,” which brought him…