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41 Mo. 536

Bailey v. Chapman

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided October 15, 1867

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1867-10-15

Louis Circuit Court. Plaintiff’s instruction given: “ If the jury believe from the evidence that the defendant employed the plaintiff to sell the real estate described in the petition for one hundred dollars per foot, one third cash, one third in one year, and one third in two years; that the said plaintiff undertook to sell said property for said price and upon said terms ; that said plaintiff procured a purchaser for said lot at said price and upon said terms, and reported…

Relies on Moses v. . Bierling · Glentworth v. Luther

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Decided 1867-10-15

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Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1978

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Wagner, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The objection that the court permitted the plaintiff to be recalled and re-examined could not have operated to the serious detriment of the defendant, and no advantage can be *538taken of it on error, as it was a matter resting in the sound discretion of the court. No exceptions were taken to the instructions ; but we have examined them and think they are wholly unobjectionable, and correctly expound the law as applicable to the case made by the pleadings and evidence. The testimony was conflicting, but it was for the jury to weigh and attach to it whatever importance they deemed it deserved.

¶3A broker employed to make a sale under an agreement for a commission is entitled to pay when he makes the sale according to instructions and in good faith, and the principal cannot relieve himself from liability by a refusal to consummate the sale, or by a voluntary act of his own disabling lflm from performance—Wentworth v. Luther, 21 Barb. 145; Kock v. Emmerling, 22 How. (U. S.) 69; Moses v. Burling, 31 N. Y. 462.

¶4The verdict of the jury entirely negatives the defence made by the defendant, that the plaintiff was to communicate with him before closing any contract of sale.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

The other judges concur.
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