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.
In an action to recover real estate commissions for a sale alleged to have been made by the owner as a result of the plaintiff's efforts, following alleged promise by the owner to pay the plaintiff such commission, after the owner had failed to effect a sale to such purchaser with whom he had originally negotiated, without any introduction by the plaintiff, an instruction making it essential to a recovery that the purchaser should have been originally procured by the plaintiff; held, properly refused as misleading. O'Connor v. Kennedy, 200 I11. App. 426.
Instruction that plaintiff "is entitled to recover if he was instrumental in bringing the buyer and seller together;" held correct, and not open to the objection that the jury might have inferred that it meant a mere physical bringing together. Id.
 
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