Render v. Jones Mercantile Co.

1. An act can not be subject to ratification unless done for and in behalf of the person adopting it and attempting to ratify it. Civil Code (1910), § 3569; Swicord v. Waxelbaum, 23 Ga. App. 297 (97 S. E. 891); Huffcutt on Agency (2d ed.), 44, 45, and eases there cited.(a) In a suit by a merchant against a planter, to recover the purchase price of oats sold to the defendant’s overseer and charged by the plaintiff to the defendant, where there is no evidence to the effect that the overseer, in buying the oats, did so in behalf of the defendant, a subsequent promise of the defendant to the…