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.
A broker who brought the parties together, and, upon a flaw being found in the title of lands of one party to the exchange, did nothing more than to await the outcome of supposed efforts to cure the title, is not entitled to compensation where one of the parties sold his land, and the parties got together, and through their own efforts came to a bargain upon other and different terms from those that obtained during the course of the broker's period of service, even had there been a collusive understanding between the parties to hinder the broker in the event of his making a claim for brokerage. Tuoti v. Benenson, 181 N. Y. Sup. 755.
 
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