Myers v. Coleman

Citations

• 93 Miss. 226
• 46 So. 249

Syllabus

<p>IBrokees. Contract. Commissions. Unilateral agreement. Sale of homestead.</p> <p>Where brokers, at tbe instance of their customer, induced the owner of a homestead to verbally agree to sell his home to the customer, and afterwards secured from him a unilateral written contract agreeing to sell to the customer for a designated sum “less five per centum commissions,” the brokers cannot recover commissions of the owner, the sale having failed because the owner’s wife would not join in the execution of a deed.</p>