Fisk Mining & Milling Co. v. Reed

On Petition for Rehearing.

In support of a petition for rehearing, it is urged that the agent of the defendant who promised to pay for the pumping had authority only with respect to the current affairs of the company, and no authority as to matters which were past. For the past pumping, *520standing alone, this proposition might be correct, but in view of the fact that this agent had authority, generally, to contract for the drainage of the company’s-mine, he would have the right, in the absence of any notice to the plaintiffs to the contrary, to arrange for those matters in the past which were…