Smith v. Adelberg
Smith v. Adelberg
Opinion of the Court
This appeal involves two questions: (1) Are the findings of fact supported by the evidence, and (2) does the evidence justify the judgment as- a matter of law. The material facts found are, that the appellant employed the respondent to secure subscribers to a syndicate then in process of organization, for the purpose of purchasing about 13,000 acres of land, situated in the state of Montana, at the price of $9.50 per share; that he agreed to give
These findings are abundantly supported by the evidence. The plan proposed was that each share of stock should represent one acre of land. The testimony shows that the appellant was to give the respondent one hundred shares of stock in a corporation to be organized by the former, or to give him its equivalent in money. The appellant represented that his commission on the basis proposed would be $3,000, whilst the testimony shows that it would have been about
The appellant relies upon the recent case of Watson v. Bayliss, 71 Wash. 499, 128 Pac. 1061. The two cases have nothing in common. In that case it was alleged that the plaintiff and the defendant agreed to organize a corporation for the purpose of carrying out a certain business enterprise; and we held that, under the allegations of the complaint and the proof submitted in support thereof, there was no meeting of minds upon the substantial features of the corporation.
The judgment is affirmed.
Crow, C. J., Mount, and Parker, JJ., concur.
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- Brokers — Commissions — Contract for Employment — Performance. A broker is entitled to recover his commissions, the value of shares agreed to be given him, for finding a purchaser for 3,000 shares of stock in a corporation to be organized by the defendant, where he fully performed his agreement by finding a purchaser willing to buy the stock, but the project fell through solely because of defendant’s misrepresentations as to the commissions he would make out of the enterprise, and as to the number of subscribers necessary to form the syndicate, and the value of the land.