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 defendant agreed to pay commissions for sales of lands to customers "procured" by plaintiffs, an instruction that defendants were liable if plaintiffs "furnished" customers, is not a departure from the issues made. Boyd v. Watson, 101 Iowa 214, 70 N. W. 120. A petition alleged that defendant promised to pay plaintiff and another a commission for selling defendant's farm, but refused to pay the same on sale of the farm; an amended petition alleged in the first count that defendant had promised to pay plaintiff a commission for selling the farm, but had paid one-half thereof; the second count alleged that defendant agreed to pay plaintiff and another a certain sum each for selling the farm, but that on sale thereof refused to pay plaintiff his part of the commissions. Held, that the amended petition did not embrace a different cause of action from that pleaded in the original petition, there being nothing in either of the pleadings to indicate that plaintiff intended to charge the existence of a partnership relation between himself and the other agent acting with him in selling the farm. Sain v. Rooney, 125 Mo. App. 176, 101 S. W. 1127.
 
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