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.
An agent for the sale of lands who turns the property over to another to sell, with consent of the owner, and thereafter does nothing to effect a sale, loses his right to a commission, not on the ground of assignment, but because of a waiver of his right to make a sale; and he is estopped to assert any interest in the commissions resulting from the sale made by the other. Munson v. Mabon, 135 Iowa, 335, 112 N. W. 775.
 
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