Stewart v. Will
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: Percy R. Kelly, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by S. B. Stewart against George Will to recover a broker’s commission for the alleged negotiation of the sale of real property.
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From Marion: Percy R. Kelly, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by S. B. Stewart against George Will to recover a broker’s commission for the alleged negotiation of the sale of real property. The defendant on July 23, 1910, executed to the plaintiff a writing, authorizing him to sell his farm of 275 acres in Marion County, Oregon, at $100 an acre, or to exchange the land for other real property, and in case the premises were disposed of Will promised to pay Stewart a commission of 5 per cent of the stipulated purchase price. The plaintiff secured as a buyer A. M. Abbott,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
1. Several errors are assigned, but none of them will be considered except the request for a directed verdict for the plaintiff. The rule is quite general that when a broker employed to negotiate the sale of land, without fault, fraud, concealment or other improper practice, produces a purchaser with whom the owner makes *141a valid, binding and enforceable contract for the sale of the premises, the commission has been earned, though the contract for the sale of the land is never carried out: 23 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law (2 ed.), 917; Wilson v. Mason, 158 Ill. 304 (42 Pac. 134, 49 Am. St. Rep. 162);…
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