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.
The understanding that a real estate broker, on procuring a purchaser of land, should wire the owner, does not constitute the telegraph company the owner's agent, so that a notice to the company that a purchaser has been procured is not notice to the owner until the telegram is actually received by him. Johnson v. Wright, 124 Iowa, 61, 99 N. W. 103. See also Sec. 15.
 
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