Dexter Horton National Bank v. Seattle Homeseekers Co.

Citations

• 82 Wash. 480
• 144 P. 691
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1615

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Agent — Relation—Evidence—Sueeiciency—Liability of Principal. Where, in closing a deal for land, involving a large purchase money mortgage, the vendee brought in one K. requesting that the deed was to be made to K. simply to have K. make the mortgage in order that as to third persons the vendee’s credit might not be disturbed, K. must be taken as the agent of the vendee, as between him and the vendor, where the credit was not given to the agent, but to his principal, who at the time and for a year subsequent thereto, did not inform the vendor that, by the shift of names, he was seeking to avoid personal liability, but permitted the vendor to believe that he was buying the property for himself and that the liability was his own.</p>