Sylvester v. Lynde

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This lawsuit grew out of a real-estate transaction which was complicated by some selfish chicanery on the part of the agents of the vendor.

The plaintiff, Charles Sylvester, listed his Riley county farm of 320 acres for sale. His agents were Mike Rueck and Ben Bohnenblust. These agents made a private deal of their own with A. E. Irish and C. A. Seavall, for the purpose of disposing of plaintiff’s farm to A. E. Lynde and wife for a consideration in excess of what plaintiff expected to get for it, and to convert that excess to their own use. In…