This section is from the book "American Law Of Real Estate Agency", by William Slee Walker. Also available from Amazon: American law of real estate agency.
Where a real estate agent employed to sell lands introduces the owner to a purchaser and negotiations are commenced through such introduction, the agent is entitled to his commissions though a sale is not effected at first, and the owner declares the transaction off, but afterward makes the sale himself, without the aid of the agent. Scott v. Patterson, 53 Ark. 49, 13 S. W. 419; Day v. Porter, 161 I11. 235, 43 N. E. 1073; Somers v. Wescott, 66 N. J. L. 551, 49 A. 462. See also Secs. 317, 374a.
 
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