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.
Liability to a broker for commissions is not dependent upon what parties formally entered into the written contract of sale offered to, or negotiated in by, the principal, but wholly upon who constituted the "real" parties to the bargain. McLaughlin v. Campbell (N. J. Err. & App. '09), 74 A. 530. See also Sec. 317.
 
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