Bernard Asheim v. Pigeon Hole Parking, Inc., a Corporation Vaughn Sanders, Leo Sanders, and Lawrence L. McLean

Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, Northern Division, at Spokane, in an action by appellant against appellees for fraud and conspiracy based upon (1) allegedly untrue and fraudulent statements in a letter written to appellee Pigeon Hole Parking, Inc. (hereinafter Parking Co.) by its patent lawyer, Glen L. Fish, and by appellees furnished to appellant, relating to Parking Co.’s patent

and upon (2) the alleged fraudulent failure to pay a commission fee to appellant respecting parking installations furnished by appellee Parking Co. in a garage at 720 Third Avenue, New York City, which sale appellant alleges he “arranged for” but appellee executed, and upon (3) alleged fraud and conspiracy among appellees whereby the appellee Sanders for Parking Co. allegedly conspired to refuse to waive the contract right and duty of Construction Co. (a subsidiary of Parking Co., but not here joined as a party) to fabricate and install, and refused to permit other steel fabricators to substitute for Construction Co. in fabricating and installing, the elevator units to have been produced under the six-state patent franchise, thereby…