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.
facts and circumstances in each case.
In determining what constitutes a reasonable time within which a real estate broker employed to procure a purchaser for a farm must procure a purchaser in order to be entitled to his commissions, the facts and circumstances must be considered. Sallee v. McMurtry, 133 Mo. App. 253, 88 S. W. 157; Oeiger v. Riser (Colo. Sup. '10), 107 P. 267; Cocqugt v. Shower, 189 P. 606, - Colo. Sup. - . See also Secs. 612, 1080.
Where an owner of premises agreed in September to extend the time within which a broker might sell to such time as he could get the prospective purchaser to bind itself to buy, and it was contemplated that the broker was to have until some time after the beginning of the year to make the sale, and the sale was, in fact, closed in April, active negotiations having been kept up all the time with the prospect of eventual success, the delay in closing the sale was not unreasonable, and did not, on that ground, authorize the revocation of the broker's authority without his consent. Luhn v. Fortran (Tex. Civ. App. '09), 115 S. W. 667. Writ of error denied by Supreme Court.
 
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