E. A. Strout Farm Agency v. Worthen

This is an action seeking to charge an agent upon a contract which he attempted to make in behalf of another. The claim is that because Martha Worthen and not “the estate of Frank Worthen” was the owner of the property, therefore the contract binds the agent personally.

The evidence shows that the defendant undertook to bind the owner of the farm, that he understood that the appropriate designation of the principal, or holder of the record title, was “the Frank Worthen estate,” that Mrs. Worthen was the sole'beneficiary under her husband’s will, that the defendant was authorized to act for…