TOWNSEND, J.
1. An exception to the general rule that proper payment to the authorized agent of a disclosed principal, not induced by fraud, accident, or mistake, is payment to the principal in contemplation of law where suit is brought by the payor for its return, is recognized in cases where a binder or earnest money for the sale of property is turned over to a sales broker during the pendency of a conditional contract of purchase. In such cases, if the money is...
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