Norris v. Byrne

Citations

• 38 Wash. 592
• 80 P. 808
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 1212

Syllabus

<p>Brokers—Action for Commissions—Procuring Cause—Evidence—Sufficiency. Brokers are entitled to their commissions on a salei of real estate, where it appears that there was an understanding between the two joint owners, B and R, that either was authorized to make a sale at $9,000 net, that R agreed with the brokers that they could sell at such figure, that the brokers found a purchaser who agreed to buy at $9,500, notified R that they would make the sale with the understanding that they should have the $500 as commissions, and asked for thirty days’ time to close the deal, that B objected to giving time, whereupon the brokers gave the name of the purchaser and the question of time became a matter of direct negotiation between B and the purchaser, and was fixed at three days, within which time the deal was closed at $9,500, B at that time repudiating the agreement with the brokers, and the brokers notifying the owners that they would be held for the commissions before the deal was closed; since the brokers were the procuring cause, upon terms satisfactory to the owners, who, in closing up a sale practically consummated by the brokers, reaped the benefit of their services, and are not in a position to deny liability for the commissions.</p>