Enochs v. Paxton

Citations

• 87 Miss. 660
• 40 So. 14

Syllabus

<p>1. Brokers. Real-estate agents. Commissions. Abandonment of employment.</p> <p>In an action by a real-estate broker for commissions, the plaintiff: (a) Is entitled to recover, if he brought his principal and the purchaser into negotiations resulting in the sale of the land; but (5) Is not entitled to recover if, failing to sell the property himself, he directed a prospective purchaser to trade with the owner, who made sale, relying on the broker’s abandonment of his employment.</p> <p>2. Same. Instructions.</p> <p>An instruction, requested in such case by defendant, to the effect that the plaintiff could not recover if defendant would not have sold the property had he known he would have to pay commissions, was properly refused.</p>