Lane v. Pacific National Bank

This is an appeal from a summary judgment dismissing appellant’s action to recover a broker’s commission for the sale of real property.1

*264On or about August 12, 1957, the respondent imparted relevant data respecting its Washington property to Stod-dard and Company, an Oregon licensed real-estate broker. Respondent authorized the broker to reveal such information to a single identified Oregon concern but did not employ it to sell the property and positively refused to pay a commission if a sale were consummated, but, on the contrary, insisted that Stoddard and Company look exclusively to the…