Addison v. Wanamaker

Citations

• 185 Pa. 536
• 39 A. 1111
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 750

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Peal estate broker — Commissions—Contract.</p> <p>It is against public policy and sound morality for a man to act as broker for both vendor and vendee, unless that fact is fully communicated to the parties.</p> <p>In an action by a real estate broker to recover commissions for the sale of real estate, the plaintiff is not entitled to recover where the evidence shows that the plaintiff had a client or customer who wished to buy property similar to that of the defendant; that plaintiff finally arranged through defendant’s agent satisfactory terms of purchase for his customer; that the property was subsequently conveyed accordingly, but there was no evidence that the plaintiff was ever authorized by the defendant to represent him in the transaction.</p> <p>Custom — Peal estate broker — Commissions.</p> <p>A custom that, irrespective of any contractual relation whatever between a broker and a vendor, the latter is liable to pay the commissions to the former for tlie sale of real estate, is a viciously bad custom, and the vendor will not be held liable unless it has been previously made the subject of agreement between all the parties concerned — the vendor, the vendee and the broker.</p>