Wilkinson v. Bergquist

Citations

• 62 Wash. 119
• 113 P. 255
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 656

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Agent — Notice to Agent — Existence of Relation — Evidence — Sufficiency. In an action to foreclose a chattel mortgage, brought against a vendee of the property who had assumed payment of the notes secured by the mortgage, the vendee is bound by the notice and the knowledge of a person employed by the vendee to represent her in securing the mortgagee’s consent to the sale and to ascertain the amount due on the notes and mortgage assumed by her, even if such person had acted as a broker or agent for the vendor in effecting the sale; and the evidence is sufficient to establish such relation of principal and agent, where the vendee authorized her son-in-law to represent her in closing the deal and he employed such person to assist him in the matter.</p>