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 was employed to obtain a lease for at least eight years of premises in which to conduct a certain business; he obtained a lease on premises owned in part by infants, the youngest of whom would be of age in six years;'the principal refused to accept the lease. Held, that the broker was not entitled to his commissions, since the guardian of the infants could make a lease good only during the infants' minority, and hence the broker has not found a person "able" to enter into the contract which he was authorized to negotiate. Folsom v. Hesse, 53 N. Y. S. 97, 24 Misc. 713.
 
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