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LINDEMAN v. TEXTRON, INCORPORATED

No. 183, Docket 23816.

229 F.2d 273 (1956)

Victor D. LINDEMAN, Francis Bonner, Katherine Robinson Brainard, as Executrix of the Estate of Millar Brainard, Deceased, and Lincoln Epworth, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TEXTRON, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 23, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Day, Epworth, Plaskow & Lawrence, New York City (Milton Pollack, New York City, of counsel, Samuel N. Greenspoon, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City (Ralph L. McAfee, Edward C. Perkins, Jack E. Brown and Jerome T. Orans, New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before SWAN, FRANK and LUMBARD, Circuit Judges.

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

This suit (with federal jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship) was brought by plaintiffs, three financial brokers and the estate of a deceased broker Brainard, for a brokerage commission (a "finders' fee") in finding and presenting to Textron, Incorporated, an advantageous purchase of the inventories, operating assets, and name and good will of Burkart Manufacturing Company. After some eight days of trial when all the evidence for both...

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