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 broker brought a prospective purchaser before the owner of land, and the prospective purchaser, upon being told the price, left without taking any action. the broker was not entitled to a commission, since he had not furnished a purchaser ready, able and willing to buy on the seller's terms. Irines v. Bogan, 41 Colo. 9, 91 P. 1108; Georgeon v. John, 174 N. Y. Sup. 145.
Broker authorized to procure a purchaser for a wife's realty at $7,000, and for her husband's grocery business conducted therein for $2,000, who found two persons who agreed to pay $8,500 for both, offers refused by the husband, after which broker remained inactive for weeks, when wife sold her realty for $7,000 and her husband sold his grocery business for $2,000 to the one who had offered $8,500 for both store and premises, in the absence of bad faith broker could not recover commission from the wife. In re Nielson, 127 N. E. 514, - Mass. Sup. - .
 
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