National Pecan Groves Co. v. Redmond

1. Where an agent employed by a corporation which is engaged in agricultural pursuits hires servants and employees to work upon the principal’s lands, and discharges them, and rides over the lands, giving the employees instructions from time to time as to how the work is to be performed, and attends to the gathering of the crops of the corporation raised on the lands, the inference is authorized that the principal has knowledge of the agent’s act, and that the agent has authority from his principal to perform the duties mentioned, and that it is within the apparent scope of the agent’s…