Carter v. Webster

Citations

• 79 Ill. 435

Syllabus

<p>Real estate ageist—commissions on sale of real estate. In a suit by a real estate agent to recover commissions on a sale of defendant’s land, where the defendant had employed the plaintiff to sell or procure an offer for the land, and the plaintiff applied to another agent, and he to a third, and the third agent sent a customer to the defendant, who purchased the land, and it appeared that it was the local custom among real estate agents to assist each other in malting sales, and to divide the commissions, a judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff: Held, that it was through the instrumentality of plaintiff, and those he interested in assisting him, that defendant was enabled to effect the sale, and the judgment should be affirmed.</p>