Pederson v. North Yakima & East Selah Irrigation Co.

Citations

• 63 Wash. 636
• 116 P. 279
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1258

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Right to Commissions — Payment — Performance by Owner. Although a broker’s contract provided that it should receive its commissions out of payments made by purchasers on contracts for land and water rights, the owner is liable for the whole commissions where the owner breached its contract to furnish water and the payments were not made because of the owner’s failure to perform.</p> <p>Corporations- — Transaction Between Member and Company— Deeds — Failure of Consideration — Cancellation. Where a deed by a stockholder to an irrigation company, made in good faith upon the advice of an attorney, in consideration of water rights for certain lands, is held void as against public policy, and the consideration fails through inability of the company to furnish the water, the grantor is entitled to a reconveyance of the land.</p>