Schaff v. Stripling

(after stating the facts as above). Appellant insists the judgment was not warranted because, he says, “there was no evidence showing or tending to show” that he was authorized by the order of the court appointing him receiver to make the contract in question. But we think the trial court had a right to presume that appellant, because he was receiver, had authority to contract with appellee to watch or guard the bridge forming a part of the roadbed of the line of railway he was operating, and that it was of no importance, therefore, that there was no direct testimony showing that he possessed…