Clubb v. Scullin
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.— Hon. Robert M. Foster, Judge. (1) Without distinction as to whether an agency be one for hire, or undertaken gratuitously, it is incumbent on the agent to bring to the discharge of his duties the utmost of good faith — a full and frank disclosure to' his principal of every material facto coming to his. knowledge and affecting his principal’s rights and interests. Reinhard on, Agency-, see. 231; Eddy v..
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.— Hon. Robert M. Foster, Judge. (1) Without distinction as to whether an agency be one for hire, or undertaken gratuitously, it is incumbent on the agent to bring to the discharge of his duties the utmost of good faith — a full and frank disclosure to' his principal of every material facto coming to his. knowledge and affecting his principal’s rights and interests. Reinhard on, Agency-, see. 231; Eddy v.. Livingston, 35 Mo. 492; Marshall v. Ferguson, 94 Mo. App. 175; Funkhouser v. Ingles, 17 Mo. App. 232; Husaker v. Sturgis, 29 Cal. 142; Anthony v.…
1Opinion of the Court
STATEMENT.
BOND, C.
— Plaintiff, a minor when this suit was brought, now of full age and a party to the cause, alleges in his petition that on the 25th of April, 1902, his mother, Eleanore Clubb, as his guardian and curatrix, held 145 shares of stock in the Wiggins Ferry Company, which defendant agreed to sell for the highest market price; that defendant was then a stockholder in the Mercantile Trust Company and “largely interested” in the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company; that said Railway Company was then desirous of procuring control of the Wiggins Ferry Company, through the…
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