258-275. Mortgages. 276-281. Bonds.

ing contract - Builder's loan.

283-289a. Liens.

A broker who is employed by an owner of land to find a purchaser therefor and is paid a commission for his services may, after the conclusion of the contract of sale, lawfully become the agent of the purchaser, to pass on the title, pay the price, and receive the deed for the purchaser, if the purchaser has knowledge of his former relations to the vendor; hence, knowledge acquired by the broker before the contract of sale was closed that an outstanding mortgage executed by the vendor was intended by the parties thereto to cover the land embraced in the contract of sale, but through a mistake of the scrivener a different tract was described therein, was chargeable to the purchaser, and estopped him from disputing the mortgagee's right to have the mortgage reformed, and enforced against the land intended to be covered by it. Vercruyse v. Williams, 112 Fed. 206, 50 C. C. A. 486; Dormitzer v. German Sav. & Loan Soc, 23 Wash. 132, 62 P. 862. See also Sec. 844.