Young v. Yeates

Plaintiff is the owner of an eight-apartment building in Minneapolis. Defendants are rental agents. By a written contract defendants were authorized “to rent, sign leases, collect and receipt for all rents and to take full charge of all matters pertaining” to the building for one year from November 1, 1916. They were to retain 5 per cent of the rents collected for their services. The writing provides that the agents exercise due and reasonable diligence in all matters, which is no more than the law exacts in the absence *368of such a clause. Defendants took charge olf the building as agreed,…