MASSENGALE v. TRANSITRON ELECTRONIC CORPORATION

No. 6919.

385 F.2d 83 (1967)

John E. MASSENGALE, Trustee, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. TRANSITRON ELECTRONIC CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

November 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Braucher, Cambridge, Mass., with whom Harold Katz, Boston, Mass., was on the brief, for appellant.

Harold M. Willcox, Boston, Mass., with whom Ann S. Dodge and Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum, Boston, Mass., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, and McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered for appellee in a diversity action in which appellant sought a brokerage fee from a putative buyer of a business who allegedly wrongfully withdrew from a purchase agreement appellant had initiated on behalf of the seller. The purchase agreement obligated the buyer to pay the broker "if and when" the transaction was consummated.

Appellant's assignors were the sole stockholders of McClellan...

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