Pillois v. Billingsley

CHASE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment in a suit •brought under the diversity jurisdiction of the court to recover the reasonable value of the appellee’s services, performed at the request of the appellant, in procuring a contract for a corporation of which the appellant was a director.

The complaint alleged that on or about July 9, 1947 the plaintiff and the defendant agreed as follows: that the plaintiff would go to Paris, France at the defendant’s expense and that, if the plaintiff should successfully negotiate with a certain French perfume manufacturer, which made the Le…