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.
Under Ballinger's Annotated Code and Statutes, Sec. 4576, amended by laws of 1905, p. 110, c. 58, requiring contracts for the employment of brokers to sell real estate for a commission to be in writing, a written contract employing a broker to procure a purchaser of real estate for a fixed price net, containing no stipulation for the payment of a commission, and showing the erasure in the printed form used of the words providing for the payment of a commission, is insufficient, and parol evidence fixing the liability for the commissions is inadmissible. Foote v. Rollins, 50 Wash. 277, 97 P. 103; Holland v. Johnson, 174 N. W. 874, - N. D. Sup. - .
 
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