Stelting v. Bank of Sparta
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Feuit, Circuit Judge. Action in equity to rescind a contract for tbe purchase of real estate in McLean county, North Dakota. Issues were formed covering the matters referred to in the findings which are to the following effect: April 10, 1906, defendant, through its agent W. G. Bartlett, pointed out and represented to W. II.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Feuit, Circuit Judge. Action in equity to rescind a contract for tbe purchase of real estate in McLean county, North Dakota. Issues were formed covering the matters referred to in the findings which are to the following effect: April 10, 1906, defendant, through its agent W. G. Bartlett, pointed out and represented to W. II. Stelting, plaintiff’s husband and who was acting for her, land in the state of North Dakota as section 11, township 146, range 84 west, as land belonging to defendant which it proposed to sell to…
1Opinion of the CourtMabshall, J.
The evidence shows, quite clearly, that appellant employed Bartlett to procure a purchaser for its Dakota land; that pursuant thereto he assumed to point out the land to plaintiff’s representative; that relying thereon the contract sought to be annulled was made, and that neither party thereto, at the time thereof, knew but that the right land had been in fact shown to such representative.
Bartlett’s employment undoubtedly included authority to do the things ordinarily done in such cases to procure a purchaser for the property (Arnold v. Nat. Bank, 126 Wis. 362, 105 N. W. 828), and whether by…
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