Tebo v. Weld

Citations

• 28 Del. 255
• 5 Boyce 255
• 92 A. 876
• 1914 Del. LEXIS 40

Syllabus

<p>1. Master and Servant—Compensation.</p> <p>When one employs another to do work for him, the employee, having performed the service, is entitled to the stipulated price, or, if none was agreed upon, to such sum as the work was reasonably worth. .</p> <p>2. Brokers—Commissions—Right to.</p> <p>To entitle a real estate broker to his commission, he must have effected the sale, or produced a purchaser ready, able, and willing to buy at the terms offered.</p> <p>3. Brokers—Compensation—Right to.</p> <p>Where a broker is the efficient cause of a sale made by the owner direct, or renders real and efficient service in procuring a sale, but is prevented by the act of the owner in selling the property direct for a lower price, he is entitled .to recover what his services were reasonably worth.</p> <p>4. Brokers—Compensation—Right to.</p> <p>A broker, who agreed that the owner might sell the property during the time it was listed with him, cannot recover compensation for a sale made directly by the owner, of which he was not the procuring cause.</p> <p>5. Brokers—Contract of Agency—Construction.</p> <p>A landowner, by listing his property with a broker, does not, without an agreement to the contrary, deprive himself of the right to make a sale direct.</p> <p>6. Brokers—Compensation—Right to.</p> <p>Where an agency for the sale of land is not limited as to time, the broker has a reasonable time in which to make a sale, and a considerable delay in effecting it will not deprive him of the right to compensation.</p>