Gould v. Rockwell

Flansburg, J..

Action for specific performance, based upon a contract purporting to bind the defendant Rockwell to a sale of farm land to the plaintiff. The defense was that the contract was made by the defendant’s real estate auent. who was employed only to find a purchaser, but who had no written authority to bind the defendant by a contract of the sale of his land. The court found in favor of the plaintiff, decreed specific performance of the contract, and the defendant appeals.

The record shows that the defendant listed his land with Houghton & Perkins, real estate agents, and signed the…