Bliss v. Prichard
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Mercer Circuit Court. — Hon. G. D. Burgess, Judge. 1. Whether the evidence is regarded as establishing the fact that Prichard purchased the lands in his, own name, while instructed to purchase for plaintiff, or as establishing the relation of attorney and client only, between him and the plaintiffs, in either case, the finding should have been for the plaintiffs.
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Appeal from Mercer Circuit Court. — Hon. G. D. Burgess, Judge. 1. Whether the evidence is regarded as establishing the fact that Prichard purchased the lands in his, own name, while instructed to purchase for plaintiff, or as establishing the relation of attorney and client only, between him and the plaintiffs, in either case, the finding should have been for the plaintiffs. Story on Agency, Secs. 189, 207, 211; Thornton v. Irwin, 43 Mo. 153; Grumley v. Webb, 44 Mo. 444; Zeigler-v. Hughs, 55 111. 302; Story’s Eq. Jur- § 311; Howell v. Ransom, 11 Paige 538; Aberdeen R. R. Co. v. Blackie Bros.,…
1Opinion of the CourtHenry, J.
The substance of the allegations in the petition is, that in 1860 Phelps, Bliss & Co., a mercantile firm of the city of New York, placed in the hands of George T. Prichard, an attorney at law, in Mercer county, Missouri, for collection a claim against Cleveland & Winn, a mercantile firm doing business at Princeton, in said county; that in April, 1860, the attorney instituted a suit by attachment on the claim against the members of said firm, and the suit of attachment was levied on the lands in controversy; (a particular description of the lands is not here necessary;) that in July, 1863,…
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