Reitz v. Bryant

Citations

• 71 Wash. 53
• 127 P. 583
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 688

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Contract for Commissions — Performance and Operation — Frauds, Statute of. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5289, requiring a contract employing a broker to sell real estate upon a commission to be in writing, a broker cannot recover for effecting an exchange of his principal’s property, where the written contract employed him to make the exchange for certain specified property, which on inspection proved unsatisfactory and such trade was never consummated, although the broker was afterwards instrumental in effecting an exchange for other property not mentioned in the written contract of employment.</p>