Jackson v. Lang

Though counsel for the defendant during the course of the trial made a solemn admission in judicio of the fact of W. K. Lang’s authority to rent the premises to the plaintiff, we think there is an absence of proof that he had authority to enter into the latter contract to buy the fixtures from the plaintiff for $126.50, which is the contract upon which this suit is brought. The plain- , tiff testified: “Some two or three weeks before I gave up the barn, I told W. K. Lang that I was going to take down and move the improvements I had made to the barn and give it up, that I was going to sell the…