Hillyard v. Banchor
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Kearny district court. STATEMENT. This action is to recover commissions claimed by the plaintiff, Hillyard, a real-estate agent and broker at Lakin, Kan., from Banchor, the defendant, landowner, of Boston, Mass., and also the amount of a payment advanced upon the contract for the purchaser, whose claim, if any, had been assigned to the plaintiff. Judgment was rendered for the amount of the advance payment, but the claim for commissions was not allowed.
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Appeal from Kearny district court. STATEMENT. This action is to recover commissions claimed by the plaintiff, Hillyard, a real-estate agent and broker at Lakin, Kan., from Banchor, the defendant, landowner, of Boston, Mass., and also the amount of a payment advanced upon the contract for the purchaser, whose claim, if any, had been assigned to the plaintiff. Judgment was rendered for the amount of the advance payment, but the claim for commissions was not allowed. Both parties appealed. Under date of October 19, 1907, soon after the land had been listed with the plaintiff, he concluded a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Benson, J.:
The plaintiff contends that the defendant’s title is unmarketable, and that having shown this, he has established his right to commissions, the sale having failed for that reason alone. The defendant in • sists that the title is good, and further contends that by withholding all information of the contract to sell for a sum largely exceeding the amount afterward reported to the owner, withholding the name of the purchaser, and making the statement that the purchaser would pay for his trouble, the agent was lacking in good faith, and…
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