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.
An instruction in an action for commissions as sales agent, that the word "solicit," as used in the contract, meant to seek for, and that it was incumbent upon plaintiff to show that he endeavored to obtain purchasers for defendant, persons who, in fact, did purchase; that it was not necessary for plaintiff to show that the purchasers made the trip solely upon his solicitation, but that if the sale was made to them on account of former dealings of defendant with them, through plaintiff's agency at the place where plaintiff resided, and that plaintiff aided and assisted in bringing them together, and encouraged and endeavored to induce the purchasers to make the trip, this would be a solicitation by plaintiff, entitling him to commissions on the sale, imposed upon plaintiff every burden resting upon him to entitle him to recover. Curlee v. Reeves (Neh. Snp. '09), 123 N. W. 420.
 
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