Taylor v. Smith

This appeal raises the question of whether or not the evidence was sufficient to establish that a seller’s real estate broker was clothed with the ostensible or apparent authority to collect the purchaser’s monthly mortgage payments. We hold that the evidence was sufficient and therefore affirm the judgment of the trial court in the purchaser’s favor.

A resume of the pertinent facts is required. During the summer of 1956, defendants Frank T. and Mary Lou Smith, then husband and wife, dropped in to the Olympia real estate office of Monroe Burnett in search of a place in which to live. At that…