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 one employs a real estate agent to find a purchaser for property which he represents as his own, and on the agent producing a purchaser ready, able and willing to pay the price, refuses to complete the sale, he is liable to the agent in an action for the usual commissions, whether the property belongs to him or to another. Stanton v. Barnes, 72 Kan. 541, 84 P. 116; Cook v. Platt, 126 Mo. App. 553, 104 S. W. 1131; Heimberger v. Rudd, 138 N. W. 374, 30 S. D. 289; Willner v. McDonnell, 185 N. Y. Sup. 837.
 
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