This section is from the book "American Law Of Real Estate Agency", by William Slee Walker. Also available from Amazon: American law of real estate agency.
Where defendants employed plaintiff to procure a loan on the security of certain timber and coal land, and plaintiff found a person who wished to purchase the timber, making an advance of the amount desired by defendants as a loan, but he discontinued negotiations because he discovered that the representations of defendants as to the amount of timber on the land were excessive, the plaintiff was not entitled to recover the agreed commission for his services. McDonald v. Diederich, 118 P. 341, 65 Wash. 480.
Representations by defendants as to the quantity of timber on the land offered as security for the loan which the plaintiff was employed to procure were not a part of the contract between the plaintiff and defendants so as to authorize recovery of a commission in case of failure to procure the loan on account of their falsity. Id. Crew v. Lombard, 216 S. W. 510, - Mo. Sup. - .
 
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