The court considered a claim for an estate agent’s commission.
Held: The claim failed. Lord Shaw of Dunfermline said: ‘the continuity between the original relation brought about by the agent and the ultimate transaction has not been merely dislocated or postponed but broken.’
(1927) 44 TLR 194
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Glentree Estates Ltd v Holbeton Ltd QBD 25-Nov-2010
The claimant estate agency sought payment of fees on the sale of a property. The defendants denied that the claimant had been the effective cause of the sale.
Held: The claim failed. The agents had not been sufficiently causative of the sale. . .
Cited – Glentree Estates Ltd v Holbeton Ltd CA 5-Jul-2011
Agent to establish effective cause of a sale
The claimant estate agent appealed against dismissal of its claim for commission on the sale of the defendant’s property.
Held: The appeal failed. Glentree failed to establish that it was either ‘the’ or ‘an’ effective cause of the sale. What . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Updated: 30 July 2021; Ref: scu.441500
