Beheret v. Myers
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. — No». John P. Butler, Judge. (1) The petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
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Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. — No». John P. Butler, Judge. (1) The petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The agency was a special one, in writing, so provided by the statute, and the writing enumerated all the powers of the agent, and third parties in dealing with such an agent are bound to take notice of the limitations, and that the conditions would be strictly construed, and that a sale could only be made in strict compliance with the terms of the power. Dunlap, Paley’s Agency, 192; Mechem, Agency, secs. 308, 273, 288; Glass v. Rowe, 103 Mo. 536;…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
Equity. Relief sought, specific performance of a contract to convey land in Knox county.
The bill, summarized, counts on the fallowing facts, That defendants owned the following land in fee simple: “The west end of the north half (240 acres), the southeast fourth of the northeast quarter (40 acres), and the northwest fourth of the southwest quarter (40 acres), of section fourteen, township sixty-two, range twelve west of the Fifth Principal Meridian, *65and containing in the aggregate 320 acres, more or less, in Knox county, Missouri;” and on the 9th day of February, 1904, they executed a…
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