WOOD v. HUTCHINSON COAL CO.

No. 5907.

176 F.2d 682 (1949)

WOOD v. HUTCHINSON COAL CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Guiher, Washington, D. C. (Steptoe & Johnson, Clarksburg, W. Va., and Joseph T. Davis, Washington, Mo., on brief), for appellant.

Mary Frances Brown and W. G. Stathers, Clarksburg, W. Va. (Stathers & Cantrall, and Arch M. Cantrall, Clarksburg, W. Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

Leighton S. Wood, a sales agent in the coal business, sues Hutchinson Coal Company, the owner of coal mines in Logan County, West Virginia, for commissions in the sum of $18,946 on sales of coal made by by the company which he claims he should have been allowed to make under the contract between them. At the trial below the judge directed a verdict for the defendant. The question is whether the principal...

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