Tripple v. Littlefield

Citations

• 46 Wash. 156
• 89 P. 493
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 579

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Refund—Principal and Agent — Personal Liability of Agent. Real estate brokers, acting as agents of a disclosed principal, the owner of land, are not personally liable to a purchaser of the land, upon breach of the owner’s contract to convey, for a refund of earnest money paid to the agents, under the agents’ agreement to refund the same if the sale was not approved by the owner, where the sale was approved by the owner and the money paid over to him by the agents, and the purchaser knew, as shown by his original complaint, that the brokers were acting as agents of the owner.</p>