Hayden v. Ashley

Citations

• 86 Wash. 653
• 150 P. 1147
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 1223

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Action for Commissions — Procuring Cause of Sale-Evidence — Sufficiency. A broker, witb whom property had been listed for sale, but not exclusively, is not the efficient procuring cause of the sale, and therefore not entitled to commissions from the owner, where it appears that, with the owner’s consent, he sent the listing to brokers in Spokane in the hope of effecting a trade, in which, according to custom, such brokers might collect their commission from the other party, but without informing the owner of the manner in which the brokers would adjust their commissions, that one of the Spokane brokers in turn sent the listing to another broker, who produced a customer and closed a deal for the sale or exchange of the property, charging the owner a commission which the owner paid.</p>