Schafer v. Olson
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court for Nelson County; O. F. Templeton, J. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals. The People’s State Bank of Dakota was the agent of Schafer, and not the agent of Olson, in closing the land transaction. Rev. Codes, Sec. 5753; Welge v. Batty, 11 Ill. App. 461; McMullen v. People’s Sav. & L. Asso. 51 Minn. 33, 58 N. W. 820; Waldman v. North British & M. Ins. Co. 91 Ala. 170, 24 Am.
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Appeal from the District Court for Nelson County; O. F. Templeton, J. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals. The People’s State Bank of Dakota was the agent of Schafer, and not the agent of Olson, in closing the land transaction. Rev. Codes, Sec. 5753; Welge v. Batty, 11 Ill. App. 461; McMullen v. People’s Sav. & L. Asso. 51 Minn. 33, 58 N. W. 820; Waldman v. North British & M. Ins. Co. 91 Ala. 170, 24 Am. St. Rep. 883, 8 So. 666; McCarty v. Eremont, 23 Cal. 197; Sayre v. Nichols, 7-Cal. 535, 68 Am. Dec. 280; Ingraham v. Whitmore, 75 Ill. 24; Renwick v. Bancroft, 56 Iowa,…
1Opinion of the CourtFisk, J.
This is one of those unfortunate controversies wherein one of two innocent persons must suffer for tbe default of a third person, and the crucial question for decision is, Whose agent, in the transaction between the parties, was such third person, plaintiff’s or defendant’s ?
The facts necessary to a correct understanding of the points involved are as follows:
On, and prior to December 18, 1909, plaintiff, a resident of Springfield, Illinois, being the owner in fee of the real property described in the complaint, a quarter section of land in Nelson county, this state, entered into an agreement…
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