Hill Bros. v. Render

1. The controlling issue in this case was whether the defendant authorized his overseer to purchase on his credit the goods and merchandise for the purchase price of which the action was brought. If the evidence whose exclusion is assigned as error in special grounds 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial had been admitted, it could not have changed the result, as it related only to certain duties performed by the alleged agent as overseer and as foreman of a sawmill, and could in no way have illustrated his authority as a purchasing agent. See Render v. Hill, 30 Ga. App.…