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 for commissions for effecting a sale of a house for defendant, it appeared that defendant agreed to give plaintiff $75 if he should sell the house for $500 before a certain day, and $50 if he should sell it for $400 after that time; plaintiff introduced to defendant a purchaser who, after the day specified, purchased the house for $350. Held, that a judgment for plaintiff for $35 was not sustained by the evidence. Blackwell v. Adams, 28 Mo. App. 61; Holbrook v. McCarthy, 61 Cal. 216.
 
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