Tull v. Starmer

Herein is another of those oft-recurring controversies between a real estate broker and his principal over the payment of a commission.

Respondent claimed that appellant engaged his services as a real estate broker to procure a purchaser for his farm at $125 per acre, and agreed to pay therefor the regular commission; that he procured two men who were ready, able, and willing to buy the farm at that price and brought them and the owner together, hut that just as they were on the point of going to a lawyer to draw up the contract the owner refused to sell; wherefore, having performed his side…