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.
Penal Code, Sec. 640d, requiring written authority to authorize a broker to sell real estate for clients, does not apply to the employment of brokers to sell a contract for the sale of real estate at a higher price than that which the vendees had agreed to pay. Levy v. Trimble, 94 K Y. S. 3, 47 Misc. 394.
 
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