Pensacola Finance Co. v. Simpson

Citations

• 82 Fla. 368
• 90 So. 381

Syllabus

<p>Where the owner of real estate engages an agent, as well as other agents, to obtain a purchaser therefor at a stated price net to the seller, the agent to be paid a commission for obtaining and producing a purchaser, and the agent obtains and sends a prospective purchaser to the seller, who, without knowledge or notice that such prospective purchaser was obtained and sent to him by the agent, but supposing the proposed purchaser had come direct without the intervention of an agent, made a price to the purchaser that did not include an agent’s commission. Subsequently the seller was advised that the proposed purchaser had been obtained and sent to the seller by the agent who claimed a commission for such services, whereupon the seller withdrew his offer made direct to the proposed purchaser and then afterwards by a new transaction sold at the same price to the same person with full knowledge of the agent’s services in obtaining the purchaser and of his claim for commissions, Held, that the agent was entitled to his commissions and the essential facts being established a directed verdict for the agent was not error.</p>