Planters' & Farmers' National Bank of Batimore v. First National Bank of Wiilmington
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN commenced before a magistrate and tried on appeal by MoKoy, J., at Spring Term, 1876, of New Hak-over Superior Court.
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Civil ActioN commenced before a magistrate and tried on appeal by MoKoy, J., at Spring Term, 1876, of New Hak-over Superior Court. The following is the statement of the case sent up with the record to this Court : On or about the 20th September, 1873, the plaintiff sent to defendant for collection a draft in plaintiff’s favor on one Adams, then residing in Washington, N. C., for $87.58. The defendant transmitted it to the banking house of Burbank & Gallagher, in Washington, N. C., for collection-, who collected the draft and failed before turning the money over to defendant. At the time the…
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
The right of the plaintiff to recover depends upon the right of the defendant to delegate his authority. The general principle is that delegatus non potest ddegtms. But it is certain that the principal may, if he chooses, give this power of substitution to his agent by express grant. It Is equally certain that the principal may confer this power -otherwise-; not only by other language, but without any express words to that effect. If a principal constitutes an agent to do a business which obviously or reasonably cannot be •done by an agent otherwise than through a sab-agent; or if there is,…
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