Raymer

Action to recover damages in the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars. Judgment for plaintiff, from which defendants appeal.

At plaintiff’s request, defendants executed and delivered to him an option, dated April 15, 1912, to purchase a certain tract of land owned by them. This document was as follows: “For a valuable consideration and the payment of one dollar, the receipt of which I hereby acknowledge, I, the undersigned, hereby agree to convey, or cause to be conveyed, to whomsoever A. Raymer shall designate, within the time limit of this option (as stated below), all that certain piece of property, situated in the county of Orange, state of California, and known and described as follows, to wit: . . . for the sum of twelve thousand three hundred and fifty 00/100 dollars, net to me, payable to me on terms and conditions as follows: . . . In case the provisions as set forth above, are not exercised within sixty days from date hereof, this option shall be null and void, ...” “(Signed) Susan A. Hobbs, D. E. Hobbs.”

Plaintiff testified this option was procured at the suggestion of and for his clients G. W. Schroeder and wife, to whom he, without written authority and without…