Hutchins & Co. v. Sherman
Citations
- 82 Fla. 167
- 89 So. 430
Syllabus
<p>1. Where a real estate broker procures a customer willing, ready and able to purchase property offered for sale according to the terms of the offer and the transaction is defeated on account of some fault of the principal, the broker is entitled to his commission although the sale is not consummated.</p> <p>2. Absolute precision and technical nicety of expression in instruction to the juries are not required.</p> <p>3. If instructions to juries contain correct declarations of the legal principles involved and fairly and reasonably present the issues made by the pleadings and presented by the evidence and the law applicable thereto, they are sufficient.</p> <p>4. It is not error for the court to refuse to give requested instructions which are substantially covered by charges which are given.</p>
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