Case Name: Frank T. Baird, Defendant in Error, v. Gustav K. Nelson, Plaintiff in Error
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1914-12-22
Citations: 190 Ill. App. 111
Docket Number: Gen. No. 20,141
Parties: Frank T. Baird, Defendant in Error, v. Gustav K. Nelson, Plaintiff in Error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 190
Pages: 111–112

Head Matter:
Frank T. Baird, Defendant in Error, v. Gustav K. Nelson, Plaintiff in Error.
Gen. No. 20,141.
(Not to be reported in full.)
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph E. Ryan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.
Reversed.
Opinion filed December 22, 1914.
Statement of the Case.
Action by Frank T. Baird against Gustav K. Nelson for real estate commissions alleged to be due for procuring a purchaser for defendant’s premises. From a judgment against defendant in favor of plaintiff, defendant brings error.
Martin & Martin, for plaintiff in error.
Francis A. McDonnell, for defendant in error.
See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.

Opinion:
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
Abstract of the Decision.
Brokers, § 51 —what constitutes procuring cause of sale. Where it appeared that the owner and purchaser of property were brought •together through an agent in June, 1912, when the sale was effected, and plaintiff had submitted the property to the same party about April, 1911, but negotiations for its sale ceased after September, 1911, and plaintiff never disclosed the name of the prospective purchaser to the owner or his agent, nor the name of the owner to the prospective purchaser, though requested to do so, and the prospective purchaser did not accept the terms submitted by the plaintiff, the evidence is held to show that the negotiations between the plaintiff and the purchaser were abandoned and that the plaintiff's efforts were not the procuring cause of the sale such as to entitle him to recover commissions.