Legal Opinion

Stevens v. Bacher

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided December 5, 1911PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Row. Eugene McQuillin, Judge. (1) The contract of a real estate agent is to secure a purchaser ready, willing and able financially and otherwise, to buy the property, and when the real estate agent has obtained such a person and has introduced the parties for the first time, and has shown the prospective buyer the property, he is entitled to his commissions. Butts v. Ruby, 85 Mo. App. 405; Crone v. Trust Co., 85' Mo.

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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Row. Eugene McQuillin, Judge. (1) The contract of a real estate agent is to secure a purchaser ready, willing and able financially and otherwise, to buy the property, and when the real estate agent has obtained such a person and has introduced the parties for the first time, and has shown the prospective buyer the property, he is entitled to his commissions. Butts v. Ruby, 85 Mo. App. 405; Crone v. Trust Co., 85' Mo. App. 601; Brennan v. Roach, 47 Mo. App. 290; Lemon v. Lloyd, 46 Mo. App. 452; Wright v. Brown, 68 Mo. App. 577; Goff v. Gibson, 18 Mo.…

1Opinion of the CourtReynolds, P. J.

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace in the city of St. Louis, against Louis A. Bacher, defendant, plaintiff filing a statement before the justice in which it is set" out that defendant had engaged plaintiff to procure for him a purchaser for certain property in St. Louis county, describing it, “then owned by defendant, and he promised and agreed to pay plaintiff a commission of five per cent upon the selling price of said property, in consideration of finding such purchaser which was then and there the reasonable value thereof.” The statement further set out that in…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Gamble v. GretherMissouri Court of Appeals · 1904
  2. Blackwell v. AdamsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1887
  3. Wolff v. RosenbergMissouri Court of Appeals · 1896

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. McCormick v. ObanionMissouri Court of Appeals · 1913
  2. Good v. RobinsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1916
  3. Jennings v. OverholtMissouri Court of Appeals · 1915

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