McDonald v. Dietderich

Citations

• 65 Wash. 480
• 118 P. 341
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 955

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Contract for Employment — Performance or Breach-Evidence — Sufficiency. A broker failed to earn his commissions for placing a loan of $100,000 on timber lands, represented to him as containing forty million feet of timber, and did not rely on such representations, where it appears that the only party procured by him to make the loan was one D., who wanted to buy the timber and was willing to advance the money in case he bought the timber, that nothing further than preliminary negotiations followed, which ended on D’s cruise showing only about twenty million feet, and it further appearing that the representations as to the amount of the timber were but expressions of opinion made to the broker, who spent several days making his own investigation of the conditions; such representations not being in any event any part of the contract to pay the commissions.</p>