Brittain v. Pioneer State Bank

Citations

• 45 Wash. 41
• 87 P. 1051
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 918

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Agent — Authority of Agent — Direction to Purchase Property — Revocation. Where plaintiff sent $1,000 to a hank as first payment upon a farm owned by B., with directions to offer $32,000 for the farm, the rejection of the offer by B. and notification to the plaintiff to that effect by the bank does not terminate the bank’s agency, and a subsequent acceptance of the offer by B., before revocation of the bank’s agency, is binding upon the plaintiff, and a complaint for the recovery of the $1,000 paid to B. is demurrable, where such revocation is not alleged (Crow, J., dissenting).</p>