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.
An owner employed a broker to procure a purchaser for a tract of land; the broker, with the owner's consent, employed a third person to assist in procuring a purchaser; the owner thereupon executed an agreement reciting that the broker and the third person were to receive any amount above $17,000 for the whole tract; a purchaser agreed to take a part of the tract at $20,000; the owner paid the broker his commissions, receiving a receipt in full. Held, that the third person was entitled to the half of the land remaining unsold, but not to any part released to the owner by the broker by his receipt in full, and objection to the contract sued on, on the ground that it was within the statute of frauds, comes too late after judgment. Ewart v. Young, 119 Mo. App. 483, 96 S. W. 420. Amendment allowable in Appellate Court. Bausch v. McConnell, 13 Ohio Cir. Ct. 640.
 
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