Legal Opinion

Matlack v. Paregoy

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided January 30, 1915PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Error to the Jasper County Circuit Court, Division Number'Two.—Ron. David E. Blair, • Judge. (1) All agencies carry such powers as the principal has, by his acts, or by negligent omissions, or by. acquiescence, caused or permitted persons dealing with the agent reasonably to believe the principal had conferred. Mechem on Agency (2 Ed.), sec. 720 and 721, cases cited; Fanning v. Cobb, 20 Mo.

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Error to the Jasper County Circuit Court, Division Number'Two.—Ron. David E. Blair, • Judge. (1) All agencies carry such powers as the principal has, by his acts, or by negligent omissions, or by. acquiescence, caused or permitted persons dealing with the agent reasonably to believe the principal had conferred. Mechem on Agency (2 Ed.), sec. 720 and 721, cases cited; Fanning v. Cobb, 20 Mo. App. 577; DeBaun v. Atchison, 14 Mo. 543; Rice v. Groffman, 56 Mo. 434; Cuplés v. Whelan, 61 Mo. 583; Grover, etc. v. Polhenaus, 34 Mich. 247; Conn. Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Pult, 45 Mich. 113; Kiley v.…

1Opinion of the CourtFaeeington, J.

The defendant in error, Ell-wood Y. Matlack, was plaintiff in the trial court, and the plaintiffs in error were the defendants. In this opinion we will refer to Matlack as the plaintiff and Paregoy and others as the defendants.

A petition was filed hy the plaintiff against Elizabeth F. Anderson, adminstratrix of the estate of E. L, Anderson, deceased, Elizabeth F. Anderson indi-, vidually, Corrie Cole, Homer Seals, H. P. Sewell, E. C. Paregoy, J. B. McCullough and Charles W. Edwards as defendants, seeking to establish plaintiff’s title to a mining lease and effect the collection of certain…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Johnson v. HurleySupreme Court of Missouri · 1893

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Savage v. Spur Distributing Co.Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1949
  2. Moe v. SprankleCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1948
  3. Carson v. HunkinsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1922

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