Dunn

Appellee sued to recover the sum of $1500 as reasonable value of services rendered in negotiating certain contracts for appellant with the Civil Aeronautics .Administration. On the trial the jury returned a verdict in his favor for that 'amount and judgment was entered accordingly. Appellant 'asks that the judgment be reversed on the ground that there ■ was no proof of the value of the services and that the case should have been taken from the jury.

'• The evidence on appellee’s behalf is to the effect that in January of 1944 he orally agreed with one Haugen, acting for appellant, to endeavor to secure hauling contracts and jobs for the latter in Alaska on the understanding that his own trucks would participate with those of appellant in the hauling and that the profits from contracts obtained would be divided equally between the parties. Thereafter over a period of several months he negotiated hauling contracts on appellant’s behalf with the Civil Aeronautics Administration. After these contracts had been obtained, one Meadows, appellant’s president, repudiated the arrangement arrived at between appellee and Haugen and excluded the former ■ from any further participation in the…