Case ID: idaho_47/html/0535-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BUDGE, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 5064.
    April 29, 1929.)
    L. A. HARTERT, Appellant, v. SNAKE RIVER VALLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICT, a Corporation, Respondent.
    [277 Pac. 429.]
    
      Holden & Coffin, for Appellant.
    L. Ivan Jensen, Otto E. M'cCutcheon, John W. Jones and Guy Stevens, for Respondent.
   BUDGE, C. J.

Action by appellant to recover for services alleged to have been rendered as broker in the sale of certain bonds issued by respondent. Demurrer to the complaint was sustained and. the action dismissed for failure of appellant to plead further. It is contended here that the trial court erred in sustaining the demurrer and in entering judgment of dismissal based upon the proposition that appellant’s complaint did not state a cause of action.

We are of the opinion that respondent was not authorized to employ an agent for the purposes set out by appellant or to pay a commission for the sale of its bonds. (Lucas v. City of Nampa, 41 Ida. 35, 238 Pac. 288; Smith v. Los Angeles County, 99 Cal. 628, 34 Pac. 439; Theis v. Board of County Commrs., 22 Okl. 333, 97 Pac. 973.) The court did not err in sustaining the demurrer to the complaint.

Judgment affirmed. Costs to respondent.

Givens, Wm. E. Lee and Varian, JJ., and Baker, D. J., concur.