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PEYSER v. AMERICAN SECURITY & TRUST CO.

No. 6113.

72 F.2d 92 (1934)

PEYSER v. AMERICAN SECURITY & TRUST CO.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 18, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Sullivan, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Frederic D. McKenney, John S. Flannery, and G. Bowdoin Craighill, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.

GRONER, Associate Justice.

This was an action by appellant, as plaintiff, against American Security & Trust Company (appellee), as defendant, to recover $87,500 claimed to be due as a commission for obtaining a purchaser for the property known as the Washington Post, which at the time belonged to the estate of John R. McLean, deceased.

The will of McLean provided that no sale of any of the newspaper properties belonging to him at the time of his death...

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