Davis v. Gordon
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of the chancery court for the city of Richmond, pronounced on the 6th day of July, 1889, in the suit therein pending, wherein Dr. H. Wythe Davis was plaintiff and Gol. John W. Gordon was defendant.
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Appeal from decree of the chancery court for the city of Richmond, pronounced on the 6th day of July, 1889, in the suit therein pending, wherein Dr. H. Wythe Davis was plaintiff and Gol. John W. Gordon was defendant. The object of the suit was to compel specific performance of a certain contract for the sale and purchase of real estate; which contract was entered into by and between Ohewning & Rose, real estate agents, and Dr. H. Wythe Davis, on the 12th of January, 1889, whereby Ohewning “Richmond, Va., January 12th, 1889. Received of Dr. H. W. Davis five dollars, earnest money, on purchase…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
(after stating the case) delivered the opinion of the court.
The sole question to be determined is, were Chewning & Rose authorized, as the agents of John W. Gordon, to make the contract in question? The answer to this question depends upon the nature and extent of the authority conferred by John W. Gordon upon Ohewning & Rose, it not being denied by the former that the latter were his agents in a limited and restricted sense.
Agencies are commonly divided into two sorts—(1) a general agency; (2) special agency. A general agency properly exists where there is a delegation of authority to do all…
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