Legal Opinion
Wheeler v. Pan-American Petroleum Corp.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided January 31, 1934No. 23273PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, P. J.
“ Generally, an agency is revocable at the will of the principal. . . If, however, the power is coupled with an interest in the agent himself, it is not revocable at will.” Civil Code (1910), § 3575. This statutory expression of but one exception to the general rule of the revocability of an agency was not intended to be exhaustive of the legal principles controlling revocation. Ray v. Hemphill, 97 Ga. 563, 565 (25 S. E. 485). See 21 R. C. L. 886, 887; notes in 64 A. L. R. 380. In order to make such a power irrevocable because coupled with an interest, that interest must be in the…
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