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.
In an action to recover an agent's commissions for finding a purchaser of real estate, where the plaintiff alleged that defendant had agreed to pay a certain sum for the finding of a purchaser at $100 per acre, and that plaintiff found such purchaser, who offered to purchase and pay for the land either in cash or on such terms as the defendant might desire as to payment, an answer denying that defendant ever employed plaintiff, but averring a willingness to sell and convey to the alleged purchaser at $100 per acre, payable in five equal installments, bearing interest at ten per cent. per annum until paid, principal and interest to constitute part of the purchase price of the land, constitutes no defense to the action, the allegation in the complaint that the purchaser offered such terms as the defendant might desire as to payment being mere surplusage. Guthrie v. Bright, 26 Ky. L. R. 1021, 82 S. W. 985.
 
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