Anderson, Clayton & Co. v. Mangham

(After stating the foregoing facts.) “If a person imposes upon another the duties and responsibilities involving the management and control of a business, such person will be presumed to have authority to represent his employer in any matter within the scope of the business.” Pickens v. Thomas, 152 Ga. *156648 (1), 650 (111 S. E. 27). Under the allegations of the petition that the defendants were nonresidents, engaged in buying and selling spot cotton, maintaining agencies in various parts of the South, including an office and agency in the city of Atlanta, and that the agent with whom the…