Musson v Moxley
Agency – Estate agent – Commission – Agreement for sale subject to deposit being paid
within ten days – Failure to pay deposit – Repudiation by vendor.
The defendant verbally agreed to employ the plaintiff, an estate agent, to see certain property.
On 14 July 1935, the plaintiff obtained an offer from W & Co to purchase the property and he
communicated this offer to the defendant, who accepted it by letter on 6 July 1935, subject to
a contract being signed and a deposit being paid within “say 10 days.”