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 an owner of standing timber, after employing plaintiff to sell the same, sold it himself to a purchaser procured by plaintiff, it was immaterial to plaintiff's right to recover for the services, that the owner was not guilty of fraud in relation to such sale, or that he should have had previous knowledge that the purchaser had been induced to buy through plaintiff's efforts. McDonald v. Cabiness, 100 Texas, 615, 98 S. W. 943, affirmed 102 S. W. 721. Compare Nance v. Smyth, 118
Tenn. 349, 99 S. W. 698; Quist v. Goodfellow, 99 Minn. 509, 110 N. W. 65; McLaughlin v. Campbell (N. J. Err. & App. '09), 74 A. 50. Compare Sec. 471. See also Sec. 1009.
 
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