Shields
Shields v. Columbia River Lumber Co.
Opinion
lead Opinion
Gilbert, J.
(after stating the facts as above). The plaintiff assigns error to the judgment of nonsuit, and contends that he furnished sufficient evidence to go to the jury to show that Winsor, the plaintiff’s assignee, earned the commission which was contemplated *981 in the agreement of August 23, 1911, in that said Winsor found a purchaser for the defendant’s lands, brought the parties together, and induced them to enter into the written instrument of November 29, 1911, in pursuance of which a corporation was formed, and the property of the defendant was deeded to that corporation; and the plaintiff relies especially upon that portion of the defendant’s written instructions to the Union Trust Company, in which that company was requested and directed to set over and hold for the benefit of Thomas Winsor $10,000 worth of the certificates of stock of the corporation that was to be formed, “said amounts,” the instrument goes on to say, “to cover all the claim or claims of said Thomas Winsor * * * against any of the parties to said transaction, on account of commissions for the negotiating and completing of sale of said property.” But the plaintiff omits to mention that, between the provisions…