WILLIE JOE WILLIAMS, PETITIONER,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, RESPONDENT

Citator

Cited By

• Elbert v. Edwards, 497 So. 2d 269 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986)
  …1980). In order to be considered the procuring cause of sale, the broker must bring the parties together and effect the sale through continuous negotiations originated by him. Leon Realty, Inc. v. Hough, 310 So. 2d 767 (Fla. 1st DCA), cert. denied, 324 So. 2d 86 (Fla.1975). However, there is an exception to the procuring cause requirement to award commissions due the broker where the broker initially introduces the seller and the buyer, and then is intentionally excluded from subsequent negotiations culmina…
• Wallace v. Odham, 579 So. 2d 171 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991)
  …ind or procure a purchaser” listing. The former requires the broker not only to find a purchaser but actually to effect the sale or procure a binding contract of purchase. Leon Realty, Inc. v. Hough, 310 So. 2d 767 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975), cert. denied, 324 So. 2d 86 (Fla.1975). Therefore, under Leon Realty, Odham’s duties pursuant to the listing agreement were to be performed continuously and beyond the time the school board became seriously interested in the property. The very earliest time that his commission…
• Allen C. Ewing & Co. v. Freedle, 521 So. 2d 384 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988)
  …f the sale in the strictest sense, in that it must have brought the parties together and “effected the sale as the result of continuous negotiations inaugurated” by Ewing. Leon Realty, Inc. v. Hough, 310 So. 2d 767, 769 (Fla. 1st DCA), cert. denied, 324 So. 2d 86 (Fla.1975). Those two obviously conflicting interpretations of the May 24, 1984, letter in turn raise another incidental issue of disputed fact in regard to the extent of Ewing’s authority under the letter to conduct negotiations with the purchaser…