Staley v. Hufford

*687The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

C. G. Staley employed Hufford & Napier, real-estate agents, to sell for a stated price a tract of land, a part of which was occupied by himself and wife as a homestead, or to arrange a satisfactory exchange of this for other property. The agents found a buyer, one C. A. Martin, who was ready and willing to take the land upon terms that were satisfactory to Staley; and Staley and Martin signed a paper purporting to be a contract for its sale or exchange. Staley’s wife did not execute this instrument or otherwise consent to the bargain. She…