Wilkinson v. McCullough

Citations

• 196 Pa. 205
• 46 A. 357
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 503

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Real estate broker — Commissions.</p> <p>A real estate broker employed to find a purchaser for land is bound to disclose to his principal any facts known to him, material to the transaction ; and if he takes part in the negotiation he is bound to exert his skill for the benefit of his principal.</p> <p>A real estate broker who conceals from his principal the name of the purchaser whom he has procured, and the fact that such purchaser had bought an adjoining lot, and does this for the avowed purpose of preventing the principal from raising the price, is not entitled to commissions.'</p>