Hopwood v. Corbin
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from O’Brien Circuit Court. This is an action in equity to enforce specific performance of an alleged contract by defendant to sell to plaintiff a section of land. The circuit court denied the relief demanded, and dismissed plaintiff’s petition. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
*2191. Agency; authority to bind principal by letters: evidence establishing. *218I. The contract which plaintiff seeks to enforce in this action is in parol, and was entered into by him and *219Broadstreet & Day, a firm of land agents doing oh business at Sanborn, in this state, who assumed, m making the contract, to act as agents for the defendant. The only authority which they claimed to have is contained in two letters which they had received shortly before making the contract, in answer to letters which they had written to defendant. The letter first received by them is as follows:
“The Corbin Banking…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jackson v. BlodgetNew York Supreme Court · 1819
3Cited by14 opinions
- Primm v. WiseSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
- Gilbert v. BaxterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1887
- McLaughlin v. WheelerSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1891
- Dee v. CollinsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1944
- Sadler v. RadcliffSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927
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