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 brokers' commissions, the plaintiffs' right to go to the jury depended upon whether their evidence tended to show that they procured a purchaser ready, able and willing to buy their principal's land, at a price and upon terms which they were authorized to make, and there being no evidence that they were authorized to agree to pay the purchaser $50 a day as liquidated damages for a breach of the contract to convey, and to secure the same by a lien on the land, or that the proposed purchaser would have taken the lands without such agreement, a verdict was properly directed for defendant. Evarts v. Fuqua (Tex. Civ. App. '08), 111 S. W. 675; affirmed 118 S. W. 132.
 
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