C. E. Parks Grain Co. v. Townsend

The Parks Grain Company, a partnership, filed this suit against appel-lee Townsend to recover the sum of $1,350 damages, for breach of two contracts of sale of cane seed. The defendant, Townsend, answered, by a plea of non est factum, denying the authority of Ricks to execute the contracts for him and in his name. Plaintiff’s firm, by supplemental petition, allege that if Ricks did not in fact have the authority, that the defendant had held him out as having such authority, and because plaintiff had relied upon such apparent authority, defendant was estopped to deny that Ricks was his agent…