Johnson v. Carter

The plaintiff alleges and his testimony tends to show that he, being at the time the owner of a house and lot in Des Moines, authorized the defendant Carter, a real estate agent, to sell the same subject to a mortgage thereon at the net price of $1,150. At this time Carter had upon his list a forty-acre tract of land in Mis*97souri, which was owned, nominally at least, by the defendant Rumbaugh, for whom Carter was acting as agent, or with whom he was jointly interested in said land. Carter reported to plaintiff that he had sold the house and lot to Rumbaugh at the authorized price, and procured…