Sylliaasen v. Hanson

Citations

• 48 Wash. 608
• 94 P. 187
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 928

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — -Sale oe Lands — authority — Frauds, Statute oe. Where tbe owners listed certain real estate with brokers, giving them tbe exclusive handling of tbe property for thirty days by a memorandum and conversation specifying tbe conditions on which they might sell the property or find a purchaser, whereby the owner agreed to notify the brokers at once in writing if the property was withdrawn from the market or sold, evidence is not admissible to show a usage and custom among brokers whereby the transaction was treated as authority to make a binding contract of sale, or to show that the owner had stated to a third person that the brokers had exclusive authority to sell for thirty days; since the memorandum did not purport to be a contract, nor give' the brokers any right to enter into a contract of sale, and there was no clear and convincing proof of oral authority to make such a contract.</p>