Greneaux v. Wheeler
Texas Supreme Court
Error from San Augustine. This action was brought by Greneanx to recover damages for (he conversion by the defendant to his own use of a promissory note, alleged to be the property of the ifiaintiff. The note was executed by B. J. Thompson in favor of tire plaintiff or bearer, and, being in the hands of one C. M. Gould, an attorney at law, for collection, was by him for a valuable consideration transferred to the defendant.
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Error from San Augustine. This action was brought by Greneanx to recover damages for (he conversion by the defendant to his own use of a promissory note, alleged to be the property of the ifiaintiff. The note was executed by B. J. Thompson in favor of tire plaintiff or bearer, and, being in the hands of one C. M. Gould, an attorney at law, for collection, was by him for a valuable consideration transferred to the defendant. The defendant being- interrogated as lo the amount of the consideration paid by him and the manner and time of its payment, and as to his knowledge of tlie fact that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Oh. J.
It will not be necessary to consider separately tlie proposition that the principal who vests his special agent with tlie muni-ments of a legal or absolute title is bound by his acts, though they may transcend tlie scope of his authority. As a general legal truth, this is certainly beyond question.
The proposition is stated in terms of similar import in section 227 of Story on Agency; and the case cited by tlie■ learned jurist as an example of tlie principle is that of a broker employed to purchase, and having ordinarily no authority to sell, still if the principal invest him…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Putnam v. SullivanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
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