Fulton v. Walters

Citations

• 216 Pa. 56
• 64 A. 860
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 560

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Sale of land — Compensation—Principal and agent — Fraud.</p> <p>Where an owner of land agrees to pay to another person as compensation for securing a purchaser for the land all above a minimum sum per acre, and a fixed sum in addition, and such person sells the land for an amount above the minimum, the fact that he refuses to tell the owner for how much he sold the land, or states to him that he sold it at the minimum, will not deprive him of his right to recover the additional fixed sum agreed upon. In such a case there is no such relation of trust and confidence between the parties as will require a disclosure to the owner of the terms of the sale.</p> <p>There is no principle of law that obliges one who has made an honest contract with another, to communicate to that other anything subsequently happening that might be an inducement to that other to repudiate his contract.</p> <p>Everhart v. Searle, 71 Pa. 256, distinguished.</p>