Henry v. Lamensdorf

Citations

• 121 Miss. 648
• 83 So. 727

Syllabus

<p>Brokers. Employee of buyers who refused commission offer from seller’s agent and acted for buyers not entitled to recover half of commission voluntarily paid their agent by sellers.</p> <p>Where the bookkeeper for buyers of a plantation did not accept the proposition of the agent for the sellers to act as sub-agent, but refused his offer to share commissions and elected to represent his employers in an effort to buy at a lower than the list price, negotiating direct with the sellers, and aeting for the buyers without intimating either to the sellers’ agent or the sellers that he was representing the latter, he is not entitled to recover from the sellers’ agent half of the commissions voluntarily paid such agent by the sellers.</p>