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 land owner employed a broker to sell certain land and thereafter, while the broker was negotiating with a prospective purchaser, the landlord asked him to make no further efforts to sell the land since the land owner's wife would not join him in executing the deed, to which the broker replied, "All right," and directly afterward the land owner sold the land to a purchaser secured by the broker, the court, in an action by the broker for his commissions, properly refused an instruction that if the broker induced the land owner to believe that the relation between them was terminated and the land owner acted upon such belief in making the sale contract, the broker could not recover. Branch v. Moore, 84 Ark. 462, 105 S. W. 1178.
 
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