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 a person employs several brokers to negotiate a loan, the employer, provided he remains neutral toward the several brokers, is liable only for a commission to the one who first negotiates the loan; or, if he has not delegated the authority to conclude the transaction, to the one who first produces a person able, ready and willing to lend on terms agreeable to the employer, and this without any express contract to that effect. Hendricks v. Cobb, 175 N. W. 225, - Mich Sup. - .
 
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