Norton v. Nevills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for an alleged breach of an agreement to deliver to the plaintiff one hundred thousand shares of stock of the Rawhide Gold Mining Company alleged to have been sold to the plaintiff by the defendants acting through their agent, one George M. Pinney.
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Contract for an alleged breach of an agreement to deliver to the plaintiff one hundred thousand shares of stock of the Rawhide Gold Mining Company alleged to have been sold to the plaintiff by the defendants acting through their agent, one George M. Pinney. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who ruled, upon the facts as stated and agreed by counsel, that the action could not be maintained, and directed a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The written agreement which Pinney made with the plaintiff, on March 23, 1896, set forth that Pinney was acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by an agreement between himself and the defendants dated September 23,1895, as amended by a supplementary agreement between the- same parties, dated September 30, 1895. The plaintiff therefore had full notice that Pinney was acting as a special agent of the defendants, and the only question in the case is whether Pinney acted within the scope of his authority.
By the eighth article of the agreement of September 23,1895, Pinney…
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