Roche v. Curtin

The plaintiffs, real estate brokers, brought the defendant owners and a customer together upon a price which the owners had agreed with the brokers to take, and the customers had agreed with them to pay, for the owner’s property, but the sale was not consummated because of the failure of the plaintiffs to render financial assistance which they had agreed to give the customer to enable him to purchase the property. Some months later the customer himself procured the necessary funds and purchased the property. The plaintiffs claim to be the procuring cause of the sale. With such corrections of…