Warnock v. Philadelphia Trust Co.

Citations

• 69 Pa. Super. 589
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 141

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Real estate brokers — Commissions — Sale to government or government agency — Illegality of contract.</p> <p>A real estate broker who sells real estate to the government or to a government agency, such as the Fairmount Park Commission of the City of Philadelphia is entitled to his commissions, if the sale has been effected in perfect good faith by the owner, the broker, and the government agent or agency.</p> <p>Where the Fairmount Park Commission of Philadelphia enters into an agreement with a real estate broker to purchase the land of the broker’s principal, the fact that the commission had the board of viewers approve the negotiation in describing the acreage and the amount of damages, and had this report confirmed by the court, does not affect the owner’s liability to pay commissions to his broker; and especially is this the case where the owner, the guardian of an insane person, secured the approval of the court to the price to be received, subject to a designated broker's commission, and actually received the purchase-money.</p>