224 N.W. 696 | Minn. | 1929
1. Plaintiff's ownership and therefore his right to sue are put in issue by the pleadings. There is no direct proof of his ownership. The record in that respect, from plaintiff's standpoint, is inexcusably deficient. But the record does not leave in doubt that the case was tried upon the assumption by all concerned of plaintiff's ownership of the mortgaged premises. No question was made of it at the trial, and even in her motion for amended findings defendant herself asks for one establishing the conveyance of the property from the mortgagors to plaintiff. It is therefore too late for defendant on this appeal to raise for the first time the question of plaintiff's ownership and consequent right to sue.
2. The decision for plaintiff rests upon a finding that John A. Lane, a mortgage loan broker, had actual authority from defendant to collect the mortgage debt subject to which plaintiff took his conveyance. Plaintiff did pay the money to Lane supposing him to be defendant's agent. Lane kept the money. (For other cases involving similar transactions in which Lane has figured, see Madsen v. Miller,
Order affirmed. *122