Hardinger v. Columbia

Citations

• 50 Wash. 405
• 97 P. 445
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 749

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Authority—Power to Sell. An employment of a broker to find a purchaser of real property does not authorize the broker to enter into a binding contract to sell.</p> <p>Vendor and Purchaser — Unauthorized Contract — Ratification —Principal and Agent. A contract made to sell real estate, made subject to the owner’s approval and entered into by a broker without authority, is not ratified by the owner by an acceptance of an offer for the property which specified the same price, but failed to specify material terms of the contract of which the owner had no knowledge.</p>