Case Name: LAMB et ux, Respondents, v. MORDEROSIAN et ux, Appellants
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1978-10-02
Citations: 36 Or. App. 505
Docket Number: No. 38-069, CA 10540
Parties: LAMB et ux, Respondents, v. MORDEROSIAN et ux, Appellants.
Judges: Before Johnson, Presiding Judge, and Gillette and Roberts, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 36
Pages: 505–507

Head Matter:
Argued July 19,
affirmed October 2, 1978
LAMB et ux, Respondents, v. MORDEROSIAN et ux, Appellants.
(No. 38-069, CA 10540)
584 P2d 796
Gerald R. Pullen, Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellants.
Ralph Bolliger, Beaverton, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Bolliger, Hampton & Tarlow, Beaverton.
Before Johnson, Presiding Judge, and Gillette and Roberts, Judges.
PER CURIAM.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Defendants appeal from a summary judgment directing specific performance of an earnest money agreement for sale of a residence. There is no dispute as to any material facts. We decide this case on two elementary principles of law: 1) where an offeree mails to his agent both an acceptance and a counteroffer and the agent submits only the acceptance to the offeror, the offeree is bound by his agent's actions; and 2) the acceptance was not valid until the agent communicated it to the offeror — Restatement of Contracts § 64, Illustration 2 (1932).
Affirmed.