Dimmick v. Sprinkel

Citations

• 59 Wash. 329
• 109 P. 1018
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1198

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Agent — Powers—Exceeding Authority — Rights of Third Persons. An objection that a mortgage executed by an attorney in fact is void because the power of attorney only authorized conveyance by quitclaim, can be asserted against the mortgagee only by the principal.</p> <p>Estoppel — Principal and Agent — Powers. Where an attorney in fact, with power only to sell, mortgaged the property to borrow money for the purchase price, and then conveyed the land to his wife, he and those claiming under him are estopped to assert that the mortgage was invalid because not authorized by the power of attorney.</p>