Dodds v. McColgan

The question to be determined upon this appeal is whether there is evidence sufficient to sustain a jury finding of authority in a son of the defendant’s testatrix to whom she had intrusted the management of her real property to bind her upon promissory notes signed by said son as her agent in a name which she had assumed.

The plaintiff recovered in the Municipal Court niife judgments upon certain promissory notes made on behalf of the defendant’s testatrix following the verdict of a jury. Originally the actions were predicated upon work and materials furnished, as well as upon notes given in…