Russo v. Slawsby

The case requires a determination of the conditions and terms which the law affixes to a general contract employing a broker to sell real property. By some authorities it is stated that he must produce a customer ready, able and willing to perform the contract offered by the seller. This statement is to be found in many cases, in more than a score of different jurisdictions. But in none of them is there any consideration of what the several adjectives signify. In but two is there any reference to the topic, and these merely contain the assertion that “Each of the words, ‘ready, willing and…