Turner v. Chillicothe & Des Moines City Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
tAppeal from Common Pleas Court of Livingston County. There was no evidence that it was any part of the business of the Treasurer of the Railroad to employ attorneys or to contract in reference thereto. (Sto. Agency, 6th Ed., § 134, et seq., and authorities there cited. 1 Greenl. Ev., 5th Ed., §§ 113, 114 ; Swearingen vs. Knox, 10 Mo., 31.) The Rail Road Company was bound by the acts, declarations and promises of • its officers, Slianklin and Ballew.
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tAppeal from Common Pleas Court of Livingston County. There was no evidence that it was any part of the business of the Treasurer of the Railroad to employ attorneys or to contract in reference thereto. (Sto. Agency, 6th Ed., § 134, et seq., and authorities there cited. 1 Greenl. Ev., 5th Ed., §§ 113, 114 ; Swearingen vs. Knox, 10 Mo., 31.) The Rail Road Company was bound by the acts, declarations and promises of • its officers, Slianklin and Ballew. (Western Bank vs. G-ilstrap, 45 Mo., 420 ; Mumford vs. Hawkins, 5 Henio, 355; American Insurance Company vs. Oakley, 9 Paige, 496.)
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, Judge
This action was brought in the Common Pleas Court of Livingston County, by Turner and Collier, against The C. & D. M. City R. R. Go., and Moore, and Noland, for recovery for legal services alleged to have been jointly rendered at the special instance and request of said R. R. Co., and said Moore and Noland, in defending them in a large number of suits before Lucien Cordon, James C. Bernard, and-McBride, respectively, as justices of the Peace; and a bill of items, referred to in the petition, was' annexed thereto, showing in what causes the alleged services were performed. Defendants, Noland…
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