Blackwood v. Ballard

Citations

• 83 Wash. 405
• 145 P. 238
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 687

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Commissions—Efficient Cause — Evidence — Sufficiency. Brokers are not entitled to commissions on a lease to customers originally found by them, but who were unable to meet tbe terms, where, after negotiations had ceased and the matter was abandoned, another agent took up the matter independently and effected a lease with such customers; since, of several brokers, the one whose effort was the efficient cause of the contract is entitled to the commissions.</p>