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.
By the statement of a real estate owner to a broker that if the latter or any one else could secure a purchaser for the land by a certain date, on terms specified, the land might go, gives the broker nothing more than a revocable authority binding the owner to pay commissions only in case a purchaser is found before revocation, and is not an agreement that the agency shall continue until the date specified. Milligan v. Owen, 123 Iowa, 285, 98 N. W. 792; Kane v. Dawson, 52 Wash. 411, 100 P. 837.
 
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