U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1966

Samuel Blanken & Co., Inc. v. Shannon & Luchs Company

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Decided December 1, 1966 · Fahy, McGowan, Tamm

371 F.2d 950; 125 U.S. App. D.C. 297 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

Mr. Mark P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Mark P. Fried-lander, Jr., Blaine P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., and Harry P. Friedlander, Arlington, Va., were on the brief, for appellant., Mr. Harry L. Ryan, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Cases that cite this one

42 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Edward A. Winter v. Local Union No. 639, Affiliated With the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Maloney Concrete Company (Two Cases) (D.C. Cir. 1978)
Edouard Legille v. C. Marshall Dann, Commissioner of Patents (D.C. Cir. 1976)
American Public Health Association v. Earl Butz, Secretary of Department of Agriculture (D.C. Cir. 1975)
Floyd E. Washington v. Dale C. Cameron, Superintendent, St. Elizabeth's Hospital (D.C. Cir. 1969)
Fort Myers Seafood Packers, Inc. v. Steptoe and Johnson (D.C. Cir. 1967)
HOUSER v. FELDMAN (District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 2021)
A. Ernest Fitzgerald v. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. (D.C. Cir. 1977)
Bouchard v. Washington (D.C. Cir. 1975)
M & T Chemicals, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp. (District Court, S.D. New York 1975)
Bouchard v. Washington (D.C. Cir. 1975)
Lockridge v. Tweco Products, Inc. (Kan. 1972)
Heraeus Medical GMBH v. Esschem Inc (3d Cir. 2019)
Bondpro Corporation v. Siemens Power Genera (7th Cir. 2006)
Darrell R. Page v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1984)
Exxon Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission Kerr-Mcgee Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission Union Carbide Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission (D.C. Cir. 1978)
Eckert v. Skagit Corp. (Wash. Ct. App. 1978)
Zotos International, Inc. v. Kennedy (District Court, District of Columbia 1978)
Lantz v. Wedbush, Noble, Cooke, Inc. (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 1976)
L'Enfant Plaza East, Inc. v. John McShain, Inc. (D.C. 1976)
Fitzgerald v. Seamans (District Court, District of Columbia 1974)
United States v. General Motors Corporation (District Court, District of Columbia 1974)
United States v. General Motors Corp. (District Court, District of Columbia 1974)
Franklin National Bank v. L. B. Meadows & Co. (District Court, E.D. New York 1970)
Monolith Portland Midwest Company, a Nevada Corporation v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation (9th Cir. 1969)
John T. Pennington v. Pacific Coast Transport Company (5th Cir. 1969)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion

TAMM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves the same subject matter as Samuel Blanken & Co. v. Sigmund Goldblatt et al. (No. 20,014, Dec. 1, 1966), 371 F.2d 949, decided this day adversely to appellant. No attempt will be made here to discuss the facts delineated therein, except to state that appellee here is the agent of the lessor and that appellant, having failed to recover against appellee in a prior contract action, Blanken v. Goldblatt, et al., No. 19,536 (Nov. 23, 1965), is here seeking recovery of the reasonable value of his services by way of quantum meruit.

The District Court granted appellee’s motion to dismiss. We believe that appellant’s claims here are governed by the principles announced in today’s Gold-blatt decision. Moreover, it conclusively appears from the record in the two cases that appellant was definitely on notice that he could not look to the appellee for his commission, but rather must look to the lessees.

The decision of the District Court being clearly correct, it is therefore affirmed.

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