Calvin Philips & Co. v. Langlow

Citations

• 55 Wash. 385
• 104 P. 610
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 767

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — 'Commissions — Evidence — Sufficiency. Defendants cannot escape liability for commissions for securing a loan, upon the plea that their signed application was merely tentative and to determine whether a loan could be made, where a contract for the commissions was signed, the broker procured a party ready and willing to make the loan on the terms proposed in the application, and the conditions insisted upon as to the title were covered by the application.</p> <p>Same — Defenses—Acting as Agent fob Both Pasties. A broker may act as agent of both parties, and is entitled to commissions agreed to be paid by one party, with knowledge that he was agent for the other party.</p> <p>Husband and Wife — Community Debt — Liability of Wife— Broker’s Commissions. The wife is liable, as a member of the community, upon the husband’s contract to pay a commission for securing a loan which was a community debt contracted in the management of the community estate.</p> <p>Courts — Review of Its Own Decisions — Different Judges. A decision by the trial judge upon deciding the case is not affected by the fact that another judge had ruled differently in deciding a demurrer in the case.</p>