Stainbrook v. Wilson

Citations

• 107 Kan. 86
• 190 P. 606
• 1920 Kan. LEXIS 17

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS. BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Real-estate Agents — Agreement between Two Agents to Divide Commissions — Land Sold — Commission Should Be Divided. Where the owner of a farm offers a commission to a real-estate agent to secure a purchaser for his farm at a stated price, and the real-estate agent enters into an agreement with a second real-estate dealer whereby they are to cooperate in effecting a sale of the farm and divide the commission between them, and the second real-estate dealer buys the farm himself from the owner, without the owner’s knowledge of the agreement between the real-estate dealers and without knowing that the second real-estate dealer had been induced to become interested in the farm through the agency of the first, and where the owner accordingly abates the price for substantially the amount he would have to pay as a commission and the second real-estate dealer profits accordingly, the latter is liable to the first real-estate dealer for one-half of the commission which they had agreed to divide between them.</p>