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 $100 agreed to be paid for procuring a purchaser of certain property, plaintiff testified that defendant, to whom the owner of the property owed money, wished the property sold so as to get his money, and agreed to pay plaintiff $100 if he found a purchaser, no price being named; that plaintiff brought one L. to look at the property, but he refused to buy, when defendant asked $5,000 for it; other parties afterward procured L. to purchase at $2,700; plaintiff claimed that the sale was indirectly due to his efforts, and that the defendant had sold through other persons to keep from paying plaintiff; defendant testified that he had nothing to do with the sale after L. had refused to purchase at $5,000, and that he agreed to pay plaintiff if he procured a purchaser at that price; the persons who finally made the sale testified that the plaintiff had nothing to do with the sale. Held, that plaintiff had a right to go to the jury on the evidence. Kelso v. Woodruff, 88 Mich. 290, 50 N. W. 249; Monsseau v. Dorsett, 80 Ga. 566, 5 S. E. 780; Ferguson v. Glaspie, 38 Minn. 418, 38 N. W. 352; Coolican v. Mil. & St. St. M. Ins. Co., 79 Wis. 471, 48 N. W. 717; Dickinson v. Hahn (S. D. Sup. '09), 119 N. W. 1034; Mutchnick v. Friedman, 120 N. Y. S. 375; Gibson v. Mo Lane, 148 P. 288, 17 Ariz. 61; Ruppert v. Muelling, 155 N. W. 1039, 132 Minn. 33; Rosenweig v. Rabuitschek, 150 N. Y. Sup. 353, 166 App. Div. 448; Nevins v. Hughes, 84 S. E. 769, 168 N. C. 477; Stanley v. Whitlow, 168 S. W. 840, 181 Mo. App. 461; Hanan v. McLeod, 141 N. W. 1130, 93 Neb. 783; Handley v. Shaffer, 59 S. 286, 177 Ala. 636; Worthan v. Stewart, 172 S. W. 855, 116 Ark. 294; Paulson v. Rourke,145 P. 711, 26 Colo. App. 488; McCombs v. Moss, 181 S. W. 907, 121 Ark. 533; Hamilton v. Hathaway, 133 S. W. 629, 152 Mo. App. 483; Duncan v. Turner, 151 S. W. 816, 171 Mo. App. 661; Parks v. Sullivan, 152 S. W. 704, - Tex. Civ. App. -; Cohen v. Ames, 91 N. E. 212, 205 Mass. 186; Nooning v. Miller, 165 S. W. 1119, 178 Mo. App.
297; Wood v. Foster, 181 I11. App. 409; Roney v. Healy, 135 N. W. 959, 170 Mich. 46; Nelson, Lee & Green v. Daly, 163 N. Y. Sup. 788; Baker v. Bakewell, 208 S. W. 844; Thomas v. Wychoff, 174 N. W. 26, - Iowa Sup. -; Porter v. Cox, 225 S. W. 84, - Tex. Civ. App. - .
 
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