Hart v. Adair
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Suit in equity by Mrs. Glenn D. Hart and Glenn D. Hart against the W. C. Harding Rand Company, Walter Adair, J. T. Eppcrly, James P. Burns, R. S. Green, and I,. B. Wallace. Decree for complainants against the corporation defendant, from which it appeals, and for the individual defendants, from which complainants appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Suit in equity by Mrs. Glenn D. Hart and Glenn D. Hart against the W. C. Harding Rand Company, Walter Adair, J. T. Eppcrly, James P. Burns, R. S. Green, and I,. B. Wallace. Decree for complainants against the corporation defendant, from which it appeals, and for the individual defendants, from which complainants appeal. Glenn D. Hart and his wife brought a suit against the Harding Land Company, a corporation, and the individual defendants, Adair and others, for the rescission of three…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above).
[1] We find no error in that portion of the decree which discharges the individual defendants from liability for the moneys due the plaintiffs from the Land Company. It is contended that they are liable on the ground that the Land Company was their agent. We think that the Land Company was not the agent of the owners in dealing with purchasers of the land. The owners were not parties to any contract which the Land Company made with the purchasers. They stipulated that every contract made by the Land Company for sale of any of the land should be made in its…
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