Philadelphia Mortgage & Trust Co. v. Hardesty

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J. :

In September, 1901, the Philadelphia Mortgage and Trust Company, a corporation, was the owner of a half-section of land in Harper county, which had been leased to J. P. Hardesty for the year expiring March 1, 1902, for the sum of fifty dollars, due October 1, 1901, for which Hardesty had given his note. J. W. Clendenin and R. H. Lockwood, of Wichita, composing a firm known as J. W. Clendenin & Co., were agents of the Philadelphia company *684with respect to this and other lands, but had no authority to effect a contract of sale, except upon…