CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. BATES

No. 5542.

37 F.2d 508 (1930)

CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. BATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 17, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pat N. Fahey, of Houston, Tex. (Boyles, Brown & Scott and Pat N. Fahey, all of Houston, Tex., on the brief), for appellant.

F. A. Williams, of Galveston, Tex., and Ned B. Morris and Roy C. Sewell, both of Houston, Tex. (Morris, Sewell & Morris, of Houston, Tex., and Williams, Neethe & Williams, of Galveston, Tex., on the brief), for appellee.

Before WALKER and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

This suit was brought in the district court of Harris county, Tex., to recover an alleged commission for the sale of certain real property. It was removed to the court below upon the ground of diverse citizenship.

Plaintiff, appellee, claimed to have been employed by the president of the defendant company, acting under a special resolution of the board of directors, to sell said property. The property was sold through the efforts of...

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