Yerkie v. Salisbury

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “when a seller employs a broker to sell his property he bargains for the disinterested skill, diligence and zeal of the broker for his own exclusive benefit”
• refusing to imply reasonable time for performance in contract providing that settlement would be within 100 days of final zoning
• where seller employs broker, broker's duty is to use skill diligence, and zeal for seller's \own exclusive benefit\
• where seller employs broker, broker’s duty is to use skill diligence, and zeal for seller’s “own exclusive benefit”
• “[A] real estate broker is a fiduciary and when a seller employs a broker to sell [her] property [s]he bargains for the disinterested skill, diligence and zeal of the broker for [her] own exclusive benefit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).