Bittrick v. Consolidated Improvement Co.

Citations

• 51 Wash. 469
• 99 P. 303
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1213

Syllabus

<p>Specific Performance — Parties Entitled — Interest in Subject-Matter. An action for specific performance of a contract to convey land may be maintained by a vendee who has contracted to sell the land to another and is obligated to deliver good title.</p> <p>Appeal — Preservation of Grounds — Objections Below. An objection that plaintiff has no interest in the subject-matter of the action cannot be first raised on appeal.</p> <p>Principal and Agent — Brokers — Authority to Sell Land — Vendor and Purchaser. Findings that a corporation executing a contract of sale as agent for the owner, another corporation, had authority so to do are sustained where it appears that the first corporation was agent for the other for some purposes, that confidential relations existed between the two, and that the owner did not repudiate the contract when informed thereof, but left it to the president of the agent to say whether it should be fulfilled.</p>