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.
A broker employed to procure a purchaser for premises at a specified price, part cash, and the balance secured by mortgage, procured a third person to enter into a contract with the husband of the owner for an exchange of the premises for other property; the owner conveyed the premises to the purchaser pursuant to the arrangement. Held, that the broker was entitled to his commission, though the transfer was made on other terms than those originally proposed, and though the conveyance was executed after the expiration of the time fixed to procure a purchaser. Southwick v. Swavienzki, 99 N. Y. S. 1079, 114 App. Div. 681; Reid v. McNirney, 128 Iowa, 350, 103 N. W. 1001; Shanks v. Michael, 4 Cal. App. 553, 88 P. 596. See Sec. 14.
 
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