Spinks v. Athens Savings Bank

This was a suit to enforce the specific performance of a contract which the plaintiff in his petition alleged he had made with the defendant, the Athens Savings Bank, through its agents. The right to compel such perform*377anee turned, in the present case, upon the determination of the question as to whether Russell or Russell & Hughes, the attorneys for the bank, were its agents and authorized to make the contract for the sale of the land to the plaintiff, and whether the bank ever ratified that contract. The plaintiff claimed that Russell & Hughes were the agents of the bank, and as such agents…