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.
To entitle a broker to commissions for finding a lessee, he must procure a customer able, ready and willing to take the premises oh the terms proposed by the principal. Clark v. Dayton, 87 Minn. 454, 92 1ST. W. 327; Floore v. J. T. Burgher & Co., 142 S. W. 939, judg. aff. J. T. Burgher '& Co. v. Floore, 174 S. W. 819, - Tex. Civ. App. -; Fox v. Cammeyer, Inc., 156 N. Y. Sup. 1046, 93 Misc. Rep. 180; Tucker, Lynch & Caldwell v. Hawley, 138 P. 358, 23 Cal. App. 460; Wheeler v. Bornstein, 101 N. E. 1086, 214 Mass. 595; Ballentine v. Mercer, 109 S. W. L. 1037, 130 Mo. App. 605: Cohen v. Ames, 91 N. E. 212, 205 Mass. 186; Ritchey v. Murphy, 168 N. Y. Sup. 830, 181 App.
Div. 429; Osborn v. Henry Cornell Lime & Cement Co., 173 P. 492, - Cal. App. -; Hochberg v. Hangen, 171 N. Y. Sup. 4; Davis v. Geiger, 212 S. W. 384, - Mo. App. -; Campbell v. Slaon, 101 S. E. 529, - S. C. Sup. -; Nadrema Co. v. Cas-sidy, 127 N. E. 262 (New York).
Broker entitled to commission on making a binding contract. Johnson v. Holland, 97 N. E. 755, 211 Mass. 363. Broker to secure a tenant not entitled to commissions unless proposed tenant was ready, able and willing to carry out the terms of the offer. Morgan v. Zanger, 153 N. W. 1079, 188 Mich. 212.
 
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