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.
Under statute of frauds (2 Comp. Stat. 1910, p. 2617), Sec. 10, providing that a broker selling land is not entitled to a commission unless the employment is in writing, where the contract for employment of a broker to sell land, which complied with the statute, was signed by one of several tenants in common, such authority, and the subsequent agreement by all the tenants in common to convey, held sufficient. Freeman v. Van Wegemen, 101 A. 55, - N. J. Sup. - .
 
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