Rev. Stat. 1899, See. 3418, provides that no contract for the sale of lands made by an agent shall be binding on the principal unless the agent is authorized in writing to make the contract. Held, that where a land-owner orally employed a broker to find a purchaser, and the broker made a written contract with the purchaser, the production thereof to the land-owner was equivalent to the production of a purchaser; since, if the owner had chosen to ratify the contract, it would have been binding. Young v. Ruhwedel, 119 Mo. App. 231, 96 S. W. 228; Dougherty v. Smith, 192 S. W. 1131, - Tex. Civ. App. -; Puffer v. Bodley, 181 P. 1, - Or. Sup. - .