Short v. Millard

Citations

• 68 Ill. 292

Syllabus

<p>Aqestcy—recovery for services Toy agent. Where the owner of land employed an agent to sell the same, agreeing that if the latter would find a purchaser at a fixed price, to pay him §500, which the latter did, it was held, that as soon as the agent procured the purchaser his agency ceased, and his talcing a retainer from the purchaser to see that the papers were properly prepared and executed, presented no ground for defeating a recovery of the price agreed to be paid him.</p>