Donohue v. Padden
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: E. B. Bundy, Circuit Judge. Action to recover $300, as commission for selling lands for defendant. Plaintiff was a real estate dealer. One David Sires, being desirous of purchasing a farm, procured plaintiff to show him several he had for sale. They started out for that purpose from plaintiff’s place of business in New Eichmond.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: E. B. Bundy, Circuit Judge. Action to recover $300, as commission for selling lands for defendant. Plaintiff was a real estate dealer. One David Sires, being desirous of purchasing a farm, procured plaintiff to show him several he had for sale. They started out for that purpose from plaintiff’s place of business in New Eichmond. Plaintiff informed Sires that, if he sold him a farm and located him thereon, there would be no charge for his services; that he always got his pay from the seller. On the trip Sires’s attention was…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRsuat.t., J.
All that is required, to entitle an agent to his commission for selling land, is employment, for a compensation, to make the sale, and the production of a purchaser ready, able, and willing to take the property at the price named. McArthur v. Slauson, 53 Wis. 41; Potvin v. Curran, 13 Neb. 302; Hopwood v. Corbin, 63 Iowa, 218; Cassady v. Seeley, 69 Iowa, 509; Van Gorder v. Sherman, 81 Iowa, 403; Francis v. Baker, 45 Minn. 83; Barringer v. Stoltz, 39 Minn. 63. In the last case, as in this, the customer had been found before the broker received his appointment to sell the property. The recovery…
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