This section is from the book "American Law Of Real Estate Agency", by William Slee Walker. Also available from Amazon: American law of real estate agency.
Where defendant authorized his agent to sell his farm for a certain sum, the first payment to be made on February 1st, a contract requiring the first payment to be made on March 1st, and obligating defendant to furnish an abstract of title, to pay taxes, payable after the purchaser was to take possession, and to credit on the price any insurance he might receive in consequence of the building on the land burning, was in excess of the agent's authority, and not binding on defendant. Strong v. Boss, 33 Ind. App. 586, 71 N. E. 819; Staten v. Hammer, 121 Iowa 499; 96 N. W. 964; Fleming v. Burke, 122 Iowa, 433, 98 N. W. 288; Planer v. Equitable L. A. Soc. (N. J. Ch. '97), 37 A. 668; John Gund Brewing Co. v. Tourtelott (Minn. Sup. '09), 121 N. W. 417; Larson v. Newman (N. D. Sup. '09), 121 N. W.
202; Turner v. Baker, 225 Pa. 259, 74 A. 172; Deming Inv. Co. v. Coolidge (Colo. Sup. '09), 104 P. 392; Rand v. Conkrite, 64 I11. App. 208; Saltier v. Oliver, 138 I11. App. 200, affirmed 233 I11. 536, 84 N. E. 652; Wynkoop v. Shoemaker, 37 App. D. C. 258; Van Winkler v. Harris, 72 S. E. 424, 137 Ga. 43; Merritt v. Hummer, 133 P. 816, 21 Colo. App. 568; Nelson v. W. U. Tel Co., 143 N. W. 833, 162 Iowa, 50; Harrington v. Dodge, 103 N. E. 919, 216 Mass. 461. See Secs. 310, 324, 330, 337, 337b, 339, 340, 342, 343, 354, 355, 363, 364, 372, 373, 381, 386, 427, 547, 548, 549, 597, 1041.
 
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