An owner verbally authorized an agent to offer real estate for sale; the agent, in the name of the principal, gave a broker written authority to procure a purchaser for the land; the owner subsequently ratified the agent's act by offering performance of the contract of sale to the purchaser procured by the broker by tendering a deed conveying the premises. Held, that the defect in the appointment was cured by the owner's acts constituting ratification. Mercantile Trust Co. v. Niggeman, 119 Mo. App. 56, 96 S. W. 293. See also Sees. 24, 621, 622.