In an action for commissions claimed to have been earned by the purchase of land for defendant, where the latter claimed that plaintiff acted in violation of his agency by paying a higher price per acre than he was authorized, etc., allegations of the complaint that plaintiff notified defendant from time to time of the purchases, the purchase price, amounts of payments, etc., and defendant, knowing of the purchases and terms thereof, ratified them, as well as the allegations of the reply that the payments of the land in excess of the prices thereof were made with defendant's knowledge and ratified by him, sufficiently alleged ratification. Mahon v. Rankin (Or. Sup. '09), 102 P. 608.